EM-DAT: Myanmar Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Delivering aggregated historical figures for natural hazard events in Myanmar, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by year and disaster subtype. The records are formatted for humanitarian interoperability using the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) standard.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between disaster subtype and total number of deaths in Myanmar
• Trend analysis of economic losses (adjusted) over time to assess national climate risk
• Quantifying the total number of people affected by specific natural hazards for long-term humanitarian resource planning

Strengths

• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Granular disaster classification by specific subtype
• Standardized HXL tagging for immediate integration with humanitarian data tools

Limitations

• Aggregated at the annual level, preventing analysis of specific individual disaster events
• Economic loss data may be underreported for older records or specific hazard types where data collection was difficult

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; part of the ongoing EM-DAT project tracking.

Geography

Myanmar