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

Namibia natural disaster statistics aggregated by year and subtype, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. The records quantify human impact through death counts and affected populations alongside inflation-adjusted economic loss figures. This dataset is part of the EM-DAT Country Profiles project and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing longitudinal trends in disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' column
• Assessing the human cost of specific hazards using 'total number of deaths' and 'people affected'
• Evaluating the financial burden of disasters over time using 'adjusted economic losses'

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype
• Standardized by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents the analysis of individual disaster event characteristics
• Economic loss data in developing regions often suffers from reporting gaps
• Limited to natural hazards, excluding man-made disasters

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the primary EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Namibia