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Chapter 4: Overview of Natural Disasters in Member Countries

4.1 Types of Disasters and their Effects in Member Countries:
This section deals with the pattern of disasters in ADRC member countries. Though
ADRC has 24 member countries, here only 20 countries (excluding Singapore, Kazakhstan,Armenia, and Uzbekistan) are discussed due to the disaster records of 2002. The remaining
four countries did not have record of significant disasters in CRED-EM-DAT database for2002.

Table 4 shows the disaster situation according to disaster type of each member

country that recorded disasters.
According to Table 4, drought seriously affected India, highest affected population in
the world in 2002. Further, droughts have also badly affected the countries of China,
Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Drought has also had a severe impact on theeconomy of India.
The impact of earthquakes is quite high in countries like the Philippines, China,
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Tajikistan in terms of affected people. Since there is nodata on the economic loss due to earthquake disasters in 2002, we cannot say exactly how
these disasters affected the economic conditions of these countries.
Epidemics had considerable impact on Bangladesh, India and Papua New Guinea interms of totally affected people. Also, the number of people who died due to epidemics is alsoquite high in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, and India in 2002 among ADRC membercountries.
Extreme temperatures inflicted human loss in India, Bangladesh, and Russia at
significant levels and also the number of affected people is high in Bangladesh and Russia.

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The most severe disasters in member countries are windstorms and floods. Morethan 50% of the total human loss in ADRC member countries is due to these two disasters.
Further, about half of the affected population is also due to floods and windstorms. It canalso be seen from the data that nearly 87% of the total economic loss in member countries isdue to floods and windstorms. Among member countries, the severest damage in terms ofhuman suffering and economic loss occurred in China, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia,Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, though most member countries are affected.
Also, slides caused considerable human suffering in Nepal and Thailand. Volcanic activities
inflicted damages and affected many people in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. A small
portion of people is affected by wildfire disasters in Japan and Russia.
Table 4:Natural Disasters in Member Countries (2002 Summary)(Disaster Type/Country/Disaster Characteristics)
Data
DisTypeDrought

CountryCount ofDisNo

Sum ofKilled

Sum of TotAffCambodia

10650,000

China, P Rep

201,218,000India

1Mongolia

1Philippines

1Sri Lanka

10557,000

Thailand

105,000,000

Viet Nam

101,000,000

90308,425,000

China, P Rep

2265,870

India

12200

Indonesia

41111,847

Papua New Guinea

255,470

Drought Total
Earthquake

３６300,000,000

Sum ofDamage
US$(000´s)

38,000910,721453
2,300
951,474

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DisTypeCountryCount of
DisNo

Sum ofKilled

Sum of TotAff

Philippines

1773,390

Tajikistan

232,054

Earthquake Total

1230158,831

Epidemic

Bangladesh

19649,904

China, P Rep

15300

India

2505,150

Indonesia

117757

Papua New Guinea

2142

2,215

Epidemic Total

7310

58,326Extreme temp Bangladesh

1700

50,000China, P Rep

173,500

India

21,930Nepal

160200Russia1242

25,062Extreme temp Total

6

2,939

78,762Flood

Bangladesh

1101,500,000

Cambodia129

1,470,000

China, P Rep

10

1,228

113,255,696

5,236,680

India

6732

42,005,250

30,772Indonesia

7230

133,180

16,000

Korea, Rep

120

27,507173,224

Lao, P Dem Rep

1274,500

Myanmar

12150,000

Philippines

485

150,567

392

Russia4174

336,313507,970

Sri Lanka

1

Tajikistan

4

32

4,251

2,836

Thailand2154

3,290,920

35,827

Viet Nam

3207

1,514,816

43,50046

2,924

164,313,000

6,047,201

China, P Rep

463

11

Indonesia

1325

Kyrgyzstan

1

0

1,002

Flood Total
Slide

３７

Sum ofDamageUS$(000´s)

1,714
1,714

500,000

1,500

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DisTypeCountryCount of
DisNo

Sum ofKilledMalaysia

110

Nepal

1472

265,865

Papua New Guinea

136

174

Russia1111

Thailand139500,000

11763

767,057

Indonesia

105,000

Papua New Guinea

1013,000

2018,000

Indonesia

10200

Japan

10222

Russia3

Viet Nam

1Slide Total
VolcanoVolcano Total
Wild fire

Wild fire Total

Sum of TotAff

Sum ofDamage
US$(000´s)

1,500

120

60542

Bangladesh

4122

101,400

China, P Rep

698

107,403,084

256,500

India

4144

15,250

416

Japan

3

5100,825

Korea, Rep

296

91,429

Malaysia

12155

Mongolia

23665,000

Philippines

3102714,041

Russia

217Thailand

2027,500

Viet Nam

101,800

100

Wind storm Total

30

589

109,120,484

478,930

Grand Total

129

7,555

582,940,002

7,480,819

Wind storm

３８215,000

6,914