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The purpose of this indicator is to measure the number of people who died, went missing or were directly affected by disasters per 100,000 population.

This indicator measures the number of people who died, went missing and for those who had direct damage to their livelihoods, economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets. In addition, those that were indirectly affected and suffered consequences such as disruptions or changes in the economy, critical infrastructure, basic services, trade or work, or social consequences, of health and psychological.

National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO)

National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO)

Annual

This indicator is measured in terms of how much people died, went missing or affected by disasters per 100,000 population.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted by UN Member States in March 2015 as a global policy of disaster risk reduction. Among the global targets, “Target A: Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower average per 100,000 global mortality between 2020-2030 compared with 2005-2015” and “Target B: Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 between 2020-2030 compared with 2005-2015” will contribute to sustainable development and strengthen economic, social, health and environmental resilience. The economic, environmental and social perspectives would include poverty eradication, urban resilience, and climate change adaptation.

Death: The number of people who died during the disaster, or directly after, as a direct result of the hazardous event.

Missing: The number of people whose whereabouts is unknown since the hazardous event. It includes people who are presumed dead, for whom there is no physical evidence such as a body, and for which an official/legal report has been filed with competent authorities.

Directly affected: The number of people who have suffered injury, illness or other health effects; who were evacuated, displaced, relocated or have suffered direct damage to their livelihoods, economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets.

Indirectly affected are people who have suffered consequences, other than or in addition to direct effects, over time, due to disruption or changes in economy, critical infrastructure, basic services, commerce or work, or social, health and psychological consequences.

Number of deaths attributed to disasters; Number of missing persons attributed to disasters; and Number of directly affected people attributed to disasters. This indicator can also be disaggregated by hazard, geography, sex, age (3 categories), disability and income.

𝑋 =((𝐴2 + 𝐴3 + 𝐵1) /𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛) × 100,000

Where: A2 Number of deaths attributed to disasters;

  A3 Number of missing persons attributed to disasters;

and B1 Number of directly affected people attributed to disasters.

This indicator can be used by associated ministries to help in reassessing approaches to natural hazards and to develop strategies for reducing losses by emphasizing prevention and preparedness while sustaining and enhancing essential disaster response, relief, and recovery capabilities. Ministries can focus on awareness and education; mitigation, hazard and risk assessments; preparedness for emergency response, recovery, and reconstruction; prediction and warning; and strategies for learning from disasters to help in decreasing the number of deaths, missing people, injured, relocated or evacuated due to disasters.

In most cases international data sources only record events that surpass some threshold of impact and use secondary data sources which usually have non-uniform or even inconsistent methodologies, producing heterogeneous datasets.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.