EM-DAT: Viet Nam Natural Hazard Impacts and Economic Losses

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Viet Nam provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks disaster frequency, human casualties, and economic damages categorized by year and disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of disaster frequency using the 'number of disasters' field
• Humanitarian impact assessment via 'total number of deaths' and 'people affected' columns
• Long-term economic damage modeling using 'economic losses (adjusted)'

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal comparison
• Categorized by disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Utilizes HXL tags for integration with humanitarian data standards

Limitations

• Aggregated data structure precludes analysis of individual disaster event characteristics
• Economic loss reporting is often inconsistent in historical disaster records

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregation of historical disaster records from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026 per source metadata.

Geography

Viet Nam