{"id":3751,"date":"2013-06-03T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:21:37","slug":"economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3760\" alt=\"economic and human impact of disasters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1.png\" width=\"1270\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1.png 1270w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/economic-and-human-impact-of-disasters1-424x300.png 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\" \/><\/a>This visualization by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/archive\/31685\">United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction<\/a> (UNISDR) shows the impact of natural disasters in the period 2000-2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Between 2009 and 2011 the economic cost of disasters increased from $50 billion to $371 billion due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami\">2011 Great East Japanese Earthquake<\/a>. The largest number of people killed occurred in the period 2009-2010, mainly due to earthquakes, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Haiti_earthquake\">2010 Haiti earthquake<\/a>. The largest number of people affected in the last twelve years occurred between 2001 and 2002, mainly due to droughts, including droughts in China and India.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/united-nations.tumblr.com\/post\/45853129846\/gpdrr13-detailed-cred-stats-were-released-last\"><em>United Nations on Tumbler<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization by the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) shows the impact of natural disasters in the period 2000-2012. Between 2009 and 2011 the economic cost of disasters increased from $50 billion to $371 billion due to the 2011 Great East Japanese Earthquake. The largest number of people killed occurred in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Economic and Human Impact of Natural Disasters' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,24,31,12,21,30],"tags":[226,1055,462,1023,1056,794,1057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}