EM-DAT: Netherlands Natural Hazard Events and Economic Impact Figures

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for the Netherlands provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by year and disaster subtype, updated as of March 2026. It serves as a country-specific extract from the global EM-DAT database for humanitarian and economic analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in 'total number of deaths' across different 'disaster subtype' categories over time
• Comparing 'economic losses (adjusted)' against 'number of disasters' to evaluate historical disaster severity
• Correlating 'total number of people affected' with specific years to identify high-impact historical periods

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents the analysis of specific individual disaster events
• Geographically restricted to the Netherlands
• Economic loss data in disaster databases is frequently subject to underreporting

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the main EM-DAT database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

Netherlands (Kingdom of the)