Since 1970, 2,000,000 people have died from extreme weather incidents and small island countries have been hit particularly hard.
More than 90% of the reported deaths happened in developing countries and economic damage from floods, storms and wildfires has soared by a factor of eight since 1970 , climate and water-related events have caused 11,778 reported disasters in the last half century, killing two million people and causing trillions of dollars of economic damage, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.
The United States alone lost 1.7 trillion dollars , which accounts for 39% of the economic losses sustained between 1970 and 2021 - the years analysed in the WMO's updated Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes. Asia accounted for 47% of all reported deaths worldwide - nearly one million - with tropical cyclones being the leading cause It shows 22,608 deaths from the most recent two years - a continuation of the declining trend - while economic losses increased further with the majority attributed to storms.
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