EM-DAT: Egypt Natural Hazard Impact and Economic Loss Statistics

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Egypt 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. It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' column
• Quantifying human vulnerability by hazard type using 'total number of people affected'
• Longitudinal economic impact assessment using 'adjusted economic losses'

Strengths

• CRED-sourced authoritative data
• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss values
• HXL-standardized for humanitarian data integration

Limitations

• Aggregated by year and subtype, preventing individual event analysis
• Geographically restricted to Egypt
• Economic loss data in disaster databases often suffers from under-reporting

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Egypt