EM-DAT: Pakistan Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Pakistan natural hazard records aggregated by year and disaster subtype, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks human and economic impacts including fatalities, total affected populations, and inflation-adjusted financial losses. It provides a historical perspective on disaster frequency and severity within the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in 'total number of deaths' across different 'disaster subtype' categories over time
• Correlating 'economic losses (adjusted)' with specific hazard types to assess national financial risk
• Estimating humanitarian aid requirements based on 'total number of people affected' by historical floods or earthquakes

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Aggregated by year, preventing analysis of specific event dates or durations
• Economic loss data may be underreported for older or smaller events
• Geographic resolution is limited to the country level without sub-national coordinates

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Pakistan