EM-DAT: Lebanon Natural Hazard Events and Economic Impact Figures

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) provides these aggregated figures for natural hazard events in Lebanon. The data tracks disaster frequency, human fatalities, and economic damage categorized by year and disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' column.
• Quantifying the human cost of specific hazards via 'total number of deaths' and 'total number of people affected'.
• Economic impact modeling using 'economic losses (adjusted)' to compare historical events.

Strengths

• Includes both human impact (deaths/affected) and economic impact (adjusted losses).
• Categorized by specific disaster subtypes for granular hazard analysis.
• Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

Limitations

• Aggregated at the year/subtype level, preventing individual event-level analysis.
• Economic loss data in disaster databases often suffers from reporting gaps.

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Lebanon