EM-DAT: Comoros Natural Disaster Statistics by Subtype and Year

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Comoros provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by year and disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between 'disaster subtype' and 'total number of deaths' to identify high-risk hazard types in Comoros
• Trend analysis of 'economic losses (adjusted)' over time to assess financial impact on the national economy
• Calculating the ratio of 'total number of people affected' to 'number of disasters' for humanitarian planning

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by specific disaster subtypes
• Standardized by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Geographically limited to Comoros
• Potential underreporting of economic losses for smaller events
• Small sample size due to the specific geographic focus

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from official reports and humanitarian sources

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Comoros