Weather-related disasters have claimed 606,000 lives over the course of the past two decades with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, made homeless or left in need of emergency aid. Alongside that enormous human toll, they have also caused huge levels of economic damage, with annual average losses estimated at $250 to $300 billion.
Weather-related disasters are also becoming increasingly common with storms proving the deadliest of all in terms of human deaths and economic damage. Between 1995 and 2015, storms inflicted over $1 trillion of economic losses worldwide, according to a report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The Americas have suffered the most economic devastation from weather-related disasters from 1995 to 2015 ($870 billion), followed by Africa ($709 billion) and Europe ($262 billion).
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