EM-DAT Germany: Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Loss Statistics

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Germany provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by disaster subtype and year. It includes both human impact metrics and financial damage assessments.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between disaster subtype and total number of deaths in Germany
• Modeling adjusted economic losses to assess long-term climate risk trends
• Evaluating the total number of people affected by specific hazard types over time

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal comparison
• Granular categorization by disaster subtype rather than broad hazard types
• Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Geographically restricted to Germany, preventing regional analysis without merging other datasets
• Temporal resolution is limited to annual aggregations rather than specific event dates
• 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 international disaster database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026; part of the regularly maintained EM-DAT Country Profiles.

Geography

Germany