With growing population and infrastructures the worlds exposure to natural hazards is inevitably increasing. This is particularly true as the strongest population growth is located in coastal areas (with greater exposure to floods, cyclones and tidal waves). To make matters worse any land remaining available for urban growth is generally risk-prone, for instance flood plains or steep slopes subject to landslides. The statistics in this graphic reveal an exponential increase in disasters. This raises several questions. Is the increase due to a significant improvement in access to information? What part does population growth and infrastructure development play? Finally, is climate change behind the increasing frequency of natural hazards?. Please see Trends in natural disasters page for more information, downloads and full references.This graphic was prepared by Emmanuelle Bournay, UNEP/GRID-Arendal using the following data sources: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).The illustration appears in the collection(s) Marine RRA and Environment and Poverty Times #3: Disaster issuePlease see the UNEP/GRID-Arendal maps and graphics library for more information about this resource.
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