Rwanda Natural Disaster Profiles: Annual Impact and Economic Loss Data

Offering aggregated annual statistics on natural hazard events in Rwanda, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks humanitarian and financial impacts through March 2026, categorized by specific disaster subtypes. Each record quantifies the human toll and economic damage resulting from disasters within a given year.

Use Cases

• Analyzing longitudinal trends in 'total number of deaths' across different 'disaster subtype' categories in Rwanda
• Correlating 'economic losses (adjusted)' with specific years to assess national disaster resilience
• Calculating the average 'total number of people affected' per disaster event to prioritize humanitarian aid planning

Strengths

• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Standardized disaster subtype classifications
• Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of individual event durations or specific sub-national locations
• Economic loss data may be underreported for localized or small-scale events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregation of historical disaster records from the EM-DAT database

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Rwanda