EM-DAT: Togo Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Loss Statistics

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Togo 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. It serves as a historical record of humanitarian and financial consequences of natural events within the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical trends in disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' and 'year' columns
• Estimating humanitarian resource needs based on the 'total number of people affected' per disaster subtype
• Correlating 'economic losses' with specific hazard types to prioritize infrastructure resilience projects

Strengths

• Expert-curated by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal comparison
• Uses HXL (Humanitarian Exchange Language) tags for interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific individual disaster event locations
• Economic loss data in developing regions like Togo often suffers from underreporting or missing values

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various sources including UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, insurance companies, and specialized institutes.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to metadata.

Geography

Togo