EM-DAT: Ecuador Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural disaster statistics for Ecuador, categorized by year and disaster subtype, provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks human impact and economic losses from historical events up to the most recent update in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between disaster subtype and total number of deaths in Ecuador
• Trend analysis of economic losses (adjusted) over time to assess climate risk
• Evaluating the scale of total number of people affected to inform humanitarian resource allocation

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Granular categorization by disaster subtype
• Standardized HXL tags for humanitarian interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated at the annual/subtype level rather than individual event level
• Economic loss data for older events may be underreported or missing

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026, indicating high currentness for historical disaster tracking.

Geography

Ecuador