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

Aggregated historical records of natural hazard events in Zimbabwe, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The data tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by disaster subtype and year.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of specific hazards using the 'disaster subtype' and 'number of disasters' columns
• Calculating the historical human cost of disasters via the 'total number of deaths' field
• Modeling long-term financial risk using 'economic losses (adjusted)' data

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss values for longitudinal comparison
• Categorized by specific disaster subtypes rather than broad hazard classes
• Standardized with Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) tags for interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of individual disaster event durations or specific locations
• Economic loss data is frequently underreported in historical disaster records

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT international disaster database

Freshness

Updated through March 2026 per source metadata.

Geography

Zimbabwe