EM-DAT: El Salvador Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Natural hazard statistics for El Salvador tracking disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Each record aggregates data by year and disaster subtype, including both original and inflation-adjusted financial loss figures.

Use Cases

• Correlating 'disaster subtype' with 'total number of deaths' to identify high-risk hazard types in El Salvador
• Analyzing 'economic losses (adjusted)' trends to estimate long-term financial vulnerability to natural hazards
• Comparing 'total number of people affected' across years to measure historical humanitarian aid requirements

Strengths

• Includes 'adjusted' economic loss figures to account for inflation
• Categorized by specific 'disaster subtype' for granular hazard analysis
• Standardized with HXL tags for humanitarian data interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific event dates or sub-national geographic coordinates
• Economic loss figures in disaster databases are often subject to underreporting

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 per metadata

Geography

El Salvador