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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)

 per 100,000 population

In most countries, disaster data are collected by line ministries and national disaster loss databases are established and managed by special purpose agencies including national disaster management agencies, civil protection agencies, and meteorological agencies. The Sendai Framework Focal Points in each country are responsible of data reporting through the Sendai Framework Monitoring System.

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.

Desirable Disaggregation:

• Hazard
• Geography (Administrative Unit)
• Sex Age (3 categories)
• Disability Income

This indicator, X, is calculated as a simple summation of related indicators (death, missing people, and affected people) from national disaster loss databases divided by the global population data (from national censuses, World Bank or UN Statistical Commission information) multiplied by 100,000.

This indicator is used by NEMO to measures the number of people who died, went missing or were directly affected by 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 data sets.

The Sendai Framework Monitoring System has been developed to measure the progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework by UNGA endorsed indicators.

 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/.