EM-DAT: Cameroon Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Cameroon provide annual counts of events, fatalities, and economic damages. Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), the data tracks the human and financial impact of disasters categorized by subtype.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the 'total number of deaths' per 'disaster subtype' to identify the most lethal hazard types in Cameroon
• Comparing 'economic losses' (original vs. adjusted) to evaluate the long-term financial burden of natural events
• Using the 'total number of people affected' to model humanitarian aid requirements based on historical year-over-year trends

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted 'economic losses' for accurate historical comparison
• Categorized by 'disaster subtype' allowing for granular hazard analysis
• Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), a leading authority in disaster statistics

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted to Cameroon
• Data is aggregated by year and subtype, masking the specifics of individual disaster events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregation of disaster reports

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026 per source metadata.

Geography

Cameroon