![]() ![]() ![]() 1907–1916, there were 181 disaster deaths per million people. First, the number of people has increased by four, which calls for counting disaster deaths per capita. The huge decline in disaster deaths would be even more striking if two other major global changes were also taken into account. People today have 75% less chance of being killed by a natural disaster than their grand-parents or great grand-parents. In the last ten years (2007–2016), on average 80,386 people were killed by natural disasters per year.Ĭompare this with 100 years earlier (1907–1916), when on average 325,742 were killed by natural disasters per year. ![]() Since disasters vary from year to year, Factfulness compares ten-year averages. Annual deaths from natural disasters have decreased by 75 percent over the past 100 years, according to the International Disaster Database. ![]()
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