EM-DAT: Solomon Islands Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Losses

Solomon Islands natural hazard statistics aggregated by year and disaster subtype, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. The records quantify human impact through fatality and affected population counts alongside inflation-adjusted economic loss figures.

Use Cases

• Analyzing 'total number of deaths' trends across different 'disaster subtype' categories in the Solomon Islands.
• Correlating 'number of disasters' with 'economic losses (adjusted)' for national risk assessment.
• Quantifying historical humanitarian burden using the 'total number of people affected' metric.

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted 'economic losses' for longitudinal financial comparison.
• Categorizes events by 'disaster subtype' for granular hazard analysis.

Limitations

• Aggregated format masks the specific dates and locations of individual disaster events.
• Small geographic focus limited strictly to the Solomon Islands.

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

Solomon Islands