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Chapter 4: Overview of Natural Disasters in Asian and ADRC
Member Countries

4.1 Types of Disasters and their Effects in Asian and ADRC Member Countries:
This section deals with the pattern of disasters in Asian and ADRC member countries.

Among

ADRC’s 24 member countries, 18 countries (excluding Singapore, Armenia, Myanmar, Lao PDR,Cambodia and Uzbekistan) will be discussed with the disaster records of 2003. Remaining six countries
does not have record of significant disasters in CRED-EM-DAT database for 20033.

Here we also

discussed the Asian countries which had recorded disasters for the year 2003. All the ADRC member
countries are from Asia except Papua New Guinea and Russia.

Table 10 shows the disaster situationaccording to disaster type of each member country..
According to Table 10, drought seriously affected China, the second highest affected populationin the world in 2003.

Having a severe impact on the human development activities of these countries,

droughts have also badly affected the countries of Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia..
The impact of earthquakes is quite deep in countries like Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China,Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan and Russia in terms of affected people and economy.

Iran (Bam)Earthquake is the severest in the world in 2003 in terms of human loss and economic damages.
also suffered severe losses due to earthquakes in terms of human loss and economic damages.

China

Earthquake

has also caused considerable effect in Japan in 2003.
Epidemics had impact on India, Tajikistan and Vietnam in terms of totally affected people.
Also, the number of people who died due to epidemics is evident only from Vietnam
Extreme temperatures inflicted human loss in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan atsignificant levels in terms of human loss.

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The most severe disasters in member countries are windstorms and floods. More than 80% of
the total human loss in ADRC member countries is due to these two disasters.
affected population is also due to floods and windstorms.

Further, about half of theIt can also be seen from the data that nearly

80% of the total economic loss in member countries is due to floods and windstorms.

Among member

countries, the severest damage in terms of human suffering and economic loss occurred in China, Korea,India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, though most member countries areaffected.

Also, slides caused considerable human suffering in Philippines, Indonesia and Papua NewGuinea.

Table 10:Natural Disasters in Asia and in ADRC Member Countries (2003 Summary)(Country/Disaster Type/Disaster Characteristics)

DisTypeDrought

CountryCountofDisNo

China P Rep

251,000,000

Indonesia

115,000

Pakistan

154,000Russia

11,000,000

552,069,000

Drought Total
Earthquake

Sum ofTotAff

Sum ofDamage
US$ ('000s)

Afghanistan

111,001

Bangladesh

122,525

China P Rep

11311

2,881,973

Indonesia

313,249

Iran Islam Rep

543,201

113,191

1,021,666

Japan

3

2

21,2671,207,000

Kazakhstan

1

336,626

Russia13

1,805

10,60026

43,524

3,061,637

2,728,234

Earthquake Total

3

Sum ofKilledSee Note 1 in page ii.

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DisType
EpidemicCountry

CountofDisNo

Sum ofKilledSum ofDamage
US$ ('000s)

Sum of
TotAffIndia

12,185Iraq

10

Tajikistan

1256

Viet Nam

115

74152,448

Bangladesh

22150India

21,6100

Nepal

1480

Pakistan

12000

Extreme Temperature Total

62,0730

Flood

Afghanistan

8145

3,750

Azerbaijan

1

Bangladesh

2252

550,000

China P Rep

6695

152,724,340

East Timor

2

3

1,000

India

6735

7,564,545

Indonesia

7266

88,428

Iran Islam Rep

1Japan1

Lebanon1

Malaysia

3818,800

Mongolia

1151,650

Nepal

1239

59,254

Pakistan

32661,266,243

Philippines

13,500Russia1600

Saudi Arabia

21213,050

Sri Lanka

1235

695,000

29,000

Tajikistan

161,755

20,000Thailand

39107,700

26,400Viet Nam

3128

416,823

105,000

Yemen

115056

3,052

163,550,122

China P Rep

2460India

1250

Epidemic Total
ExtremeTemperature

Flood Total
Slides５０31,500

238,144,640
169,000

1,370

838

814

7,000

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DisTypeCountof
DisNo

Sum ofKilled

Indonesia

4119231,328

Iran Islam Rep

1204

Kyrgyzstan

138211

Pakistan

1120

Papua New
Guinea

213621

Philippines

1255

217,988

7,000

Tajikistan

216,181

41,00015529

456,333

51,298CountrySlides Total
Wild Fires

China P Rep

1300

Russia102300Wild Fires Total
Wind Storm

Sum ofDamage
US$ ('000s)

Sum of
TotAffBangladesh

358420China P Rep

561

9,480,045

Hong Kong(China)

243,533

India

7164

531,314Japan

2162,400

Korea Rep

1130

80,000

Oman

1300

Pakistan

1512,557

Philippines385

155,319

Russia1Taiwan (China)

1Thailand

15,000Viet Nam

1

5,018

3,298

437,938

44,0005,500,000

30,468030Wind Storm Total

29602

10,265,606

6,012,406

Grand Total

143

49,795229,405,446

17,294,086

Source: ADRC, Japan and CRED-EMDAT, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 2003

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