Latin America: people affected by climate change disasters 2023

In 2023, a total of eight million people across Latin America and the Caribbean were directly affected by climate change-related disasters. This represented an increase when compared to the previous year, slightly up from approximately 7.9 million people. Since 1990, figures reached a record high in 2014, when a total of 32.2 million people were directly affected by storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters related to climate change. That year, heavy rains affected several regions of Latin America and the Caribbean, causing floods, river overflows and landslides that affected a large number of people.

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Release date

January 2024

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

1990 to 2023

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According to the source, a disaster is a calamitous and sudden event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, economic and environmental loss that exceeds the capacity of the affected community or society to cope with the situation with their own resources.
Climate change-related disasters included are storms, extreme temperatures, floods, wet mass displacement, droughts, and wildfires.

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