EM-DAT: Lesotho Natural Hazard Statistics and Economic Losses

Delivering aggregated natural hazard statistics for Lesotho, curated by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks disaster frequency, human impact, and economic damage categorized by year and disaster subtype, with the most recent update recorded in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical trends in disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' column
• Calculating per-capita humanitarian impact by correlating 'total number of deaths' with 'total number of people affected'
• Modeling economic vulnerability using the 'economic losses (adjusted)' field to compare event severity across different years

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• HXL-tagged for interoperability with other humanitarian data sources
• Expert-curated by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted solely to Lesotho
• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific event durations or precise geospatial coordinates
• Small sample size due to the single-country focus

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.

Geography

Lesotho