EM-DAT: Hong Kong Natural Disaster Statistics and Economic Losses

Natural hazard statistics for Hong Kong SAR tracking disaster frequency, human impact, and economic damage from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. The data is aggregated by year and disaster subtype, including metrics for fatalities and inflation-adjusted financial losses.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of 'total number of deaths' relative to 'disaster subtype' over time
• Longitudinal study of 'economic losses' (adjusted) to assess financial impact of climate events
• Quantifying the 'total number of people affected' to evaluate regional disaster preparedness

Strengths

• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Maintained by CRED, a primary authority in disaster epidemiology

Limitations

• Aggregated format obscures individual event details
• Geographic scope is limited to Hong Kong SAR
• Economic loss data may be underreported for smaller-scale events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region