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Total and insured economic losses and fatalities caused by weather- and climate-related extreme events in the EU Member States 1980-2021

Figure Created 18 Apr 2023 Published 20 Apr 2023 Last modified 03 Oct 2023

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Topics: Climate change adaptation

Economic damages, insured economic damages and fatalities per hazard type Hazard types: meteorological hazards, hydrological hazards, climatological hazards (heatwaves), climatological hazards (other).

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Methodology:: Based on the damage records from Catastrophe Database (CATDAT) of RiskLayer and the Eurostat structural indicators
Units:: Economic losses and insured economic losses in billion euros (2021 euros), fatalities in absolute values
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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Meteorological events: storms, mass movements
Hydrological events: floods
Climatological events: cold waves, droughts, forest fires
Climatological events (heatwaves)
For the period 1980-2021, total values for losses and insured losses in billion EUR (in 2021 prices), based on the damage records from CATDATICE of RiskLayer and the EUROSTAT structural indicators.

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Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden