EM-DAT - Country Profiles, Belgium

Aggregated figures for natural hazard related events in EM-DAT: Belgium

Main dataset on HDX: EM-DAT - Country Profiles

Documentation on the Country Profiles available here

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Each line corresponds to a given combination of year, country, disaster subtype and reports figures for :

  • number of disasters
  • total number of people affected
  • total number of deaths
  • economic losses (original value and adjusted)

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Author

  • Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

Publications

  1. Delforge, D., Wathelet, V., Below, R., Lanfredi Sofia, C., Tonnelier, M., van Loenhout, J. A. F. & Speybroeck, N.: EM-DAT: The Emergency Events Database, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105509, 2025.

Additional Info

Field Value
Contact
Publisher
  • Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Temporal Coverage
  • Start: 2000-01-01 - End: 2024-12-31
Spatial Coverage
  • Coverage: Belgium
Themes Population and society