EM-DAT: Kenya Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural hazard data for Kenya provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), updated as of March 2026. The dataset tracks disaster frequency, human impact, and economic damage categorized by year and specific disaster subtypes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between 'disaster subtype' and 'total number of deaths' for risk prioritization
• Trend analysis of 'economic losses (adjusted)' to evaluate the long-term financial impact of climate events
• Quantifying the 'total number of people affected' to inform humanitarian resource allocation strategies

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Utilizes Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) standards for interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents the analysis of specific, individual disaster events
• Economic loss data in developing regions often contains reporting gaps
• Geographic scope is restricted to national-level data for Kenya only

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT international disaster database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Kenya