Number of people affected by flooding per million population in the WHO European Region

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Number of people affected by flooding per million population in the WHO European Region (total over the period 2000–2011). ‘People affected’, as defined in EM-DAT, are people who require immediate assistance during a period of emergency, including displaced or evacuated people. EM-DAT/CRED and the Dartmouth Flood Observatory were analysed to determine the flooded countries in the WHO European Region and the impact of these floods.

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Last upload:: 05 Oct 2012
Temporal coverage:: 2000-2011
Tags:: climate change , human health , floods
Geographic coverage:: Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Israel , Italy , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia (FYR) , Malta , Moldova , Monaco , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , San Marino , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Tajikistan , Turkey , Turkmenistan , Ukraine , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan
Methodology:: EM-DAT data for flooding and wet mass movement events was extracted for the countries in the WHO European Region for 2000 to 2011 from the website http://www.emdat.be/advanced-search. EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – Université Catholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium. The rate per million was calculated with the average population in each country as reported in the HFA database. Mpa
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe).
Owners:: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe)
Figure type:: Map

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EM-DAT defines "affected" as "People requiring immediate assistance during a period of emergency, i.e. requiring basic survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance. Appearance of a significant number of cases of an infectious disease introduced in a region or a population that is usually free from that disease."

Map also cover Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

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