Colombia Natural Disasters: People Affected from 2012 to 2019

OCHA Colombia documented the number of people affected by natural disasters across Colombia from 2012 to 2019. The data is provided in XLSX format and incorporates HXL tags to facilitate humanitarian data exchange and interoperability.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in disaster-affected populations in Colombia using the 2012-2019 timeline
• Integrating humanitarian data into GIS workflows using HXL-tagged fields for disaster response
• Comparing annual disaster impact totals to identify peak years of humanitarian vulnerability

Strengths

• Includes HXL tags for humanitarian data interoperability
• Covers a continuous 8-year period from 2012 to 2019
• Sourced from OCHA Colombia, a primary humanitarian authority

Limitations

• Geographic scope is limited strictly to Colombia
• Data ends in 2019, lacking coverage of recent environmental events
• Specific column names and row counts are unknown

Provenance

Source

OCHA Colombia

Time Range

2012-2019

Freshness

The data covers the period up to 2019 and has not been updated with more recent disaster impacts.

Geography

Colombia