What disasters have already cost, 2000 to 2026
Disaster Loss Ledger
The exposure atlas maps the hazards ahead. This page records the losses already booked: the people killed, the lives disrupted, and the money washed away by floods, cyclones and other natural disasters since 2000. It is the ledger every adaptation budget is implicitly arguing about.
Year by year
Annual totals across all recorded natural-disaster events. Years with 500 or more deaths are shaded. 2007 is dominated by Cyclone Sidr.
| Year | Events | Deaths | People affected | Damage ($m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 85 | 1,280,062 | n/a |
| 2025 | 5 | 28 | 25,961 | 50 |
| 2024 | 6 | 124 | 48,778,944 | 288 |
| 2023 | 4 | 20 | 3,250,018 | 265 |
| 2022 | 2 | 176 | 8,200,000 | 509 |
| 2021 | 2 | 24 | 1,568,744 | n/a |
| 2020 | 2 | 283 | 8,048,271 | 2,488 |
| 2019 | 6 | 260 | 7,884,067 | 102 |
| 2018 | 4 | 102 | 14,000 | n/a |
| 2017 | 5 | 323 | 11,466,224 | 825 |
| 2016 | 4 | 198 | 3,103,625 | 1,006 |
| 2015 | 8 | 159 | 4,073,354 | 114 |
| 2014 | 4 | 79 | 3,205,709 | 218 |
| 2013 | 3 | 50 | 1,532,207 | 28 |
| 2012 | 5 | 344 | 5,658,154 | n/a |
| 2011 | 5 | 102 | 1,672,680 | n/a |
| 2010 | 6 | 107 | 887,390 | n/a |
| 2009 | 6 | 348 | 4,504,550 | 405 |
| 2008 | 5 | 68 | 636,090 | n/a |
| 2007 | 5 | 5,635 | 22,930,206 | 3,748 |
| 2006 | 7 | 154 | 229,924 | n/a |
| 2005 | 12 | 332 | 1,186,606 | n/a |
| 2004 | 8 | 1,002 | 36,889,900 | 4,602 |
| 2003 | 7 | 520 | 553,125 | n/a |
| 2002 | 6 | 832 | 1,651,400 | n/a |
| 2001 | 7 | 253 | 730,750 | n/a |
| 2000 | 12 | 191 | 2,826,797 | 935 |
Method and sources
Source: EM-DAT, the international disaster database (CRED, UCLouvain), national totals for Bangladesh. Each row sums all recorded natural-disaster events in that year. Deaths and events are counts; damage is nominal reported US dollars, not inflation-adjusted, and is under-reported in years where economic losses were never formally estimated (shown as n/a or a low figure). The cumulative people-affected total counts repeated exposure across years, so it is person-times affected rather than distinct individuals. For the hazards still ahead, see the exposure atlas.