01Regional map
Click a country to filter the entire dashboard to it; click again, or use reset, to clear. Shading reflects the metric selected below, on the current filter selection.
02Event timeline, by hazard
Every event plotted by year and sized by total economic effect. Shaded bands mark disasters that struck multiple countries within the same window.
03Cost and mortality by hazard
Drought dominates modelled cost; epidemics dominate the death toll — the same event set, two very different rankings.
Total economic effect by hazard category (US$ million)
Recorded deaths by hazard category
04By country
Ranked on the current filter selection.
05Transboundary disasters
Nine disasters or clusters identified as striking two or more SADC countries within the same, or an immediately overlapping, window.
06Twenty highest-impact disasters
Ranked by total economic effect across the region. Rows marked target rest on a response-planning population figure rather than a confirmed count.
| Rank ▾ | Country | Period | Hazard | Total effects (US$m) | Affected | Deaths |
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07Women’s Status Index by country
A composite of education parity, economic participation, health and reproductive health access, and political voice and representation, on a scale from zero to one.