Haiti: death toll from climate change disasters 2023

In 2023, a total of 78 people across Haiti lost their lives due to climate change-related disasters. This represented an increase when compared to the previous year, up from just seven people. Over the past three decades, figures reached a record high in 2004, when a total of 5,422 people died due to storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters related to climate change. In May that year, two weeks of torrential rainfall caused extensive and devastating floods in the small island.

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Release date

January 2024

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Region

Haiti

Survey time period

1993 to 2023

Supplementary notes

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.
The source did not provide data for the missing years.

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