EM-DAT Mozambique: Natural Hazard Impacts and Economic Losses by Subtype

Mozambique natural hazard disaster statistics aggregated by year and subtype, provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks human and economic impacts including fatalities and financial losses across historical records.

Use Cases

• Correlating 'disaster subtype' with 'total number of deaths' to identify the deadliest hazard types in Mozambique
• Analyzing trends in 'economic losses (adjusted)' to measure the rising financial impact of natural hazards over time
• Evaluating the scale of humanitarian need by comparing 'total number of people affected' across different years

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial comparison
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype rather than broad hazard categories
• HXL-compliant for humanitarian data interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated by year and subtype, masking individual event-level details
• Geographically limited to Mozambique, requiring external joins for regional context

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 according to metadata.

Geography

Mozambique