EM-DAT: Mexico Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses by Subtype

A source of aggregated annual statistics on natural hazard events in Mexico, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks disaster frequency, human impact, and financial damage categorized by specific disaster subtypes. The data is formatted for integration with the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and follows HXL standards.

Use Cases

• Comparing 'total number of deaths' across different 'disaster subtype' categories in Mexico
• Analyzing the relationship between 'total number of people affected' and 'economic losses (adjusted)'
• Tracking the annual frequency of 'number of disasters' to identify long-term hazard trends

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype rather than broad hazard categories
• Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Aggregated annual format lacks specific event-level timestamps or precise geographic coordinates
• Economic loss reporting may be inconsistent for historical records or minor events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026

Geography

Mexico