EM-DAT: Malawi Natural Disaster Statistics and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Malawi produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), updated as of 2026. The data tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact across multiple years, categorized by disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical trends in disaster frequency using the year and disaster subtype columns
• Estimating humanitarian aid requirements based on the total number of people affected field
• Comparing the severity of different hazard types using the total number of deaths and economic losses columns

Strengths

• Categorized by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss values
• Utilizes HXL tags for seamless integration with other humanitarian datasets

Limitations

• Aggregated annual format obscures the specific dates and durations of individual disaster events
• Economic loss data may be incomplete due to reporting gaps common in disaster impact assessments

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.

Geography

Malawi