Number of deaths from natural disasters

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• Accumulated cyclone energy of North Atlantic hurricanes
• Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk
• Annual Heat Wave Index in the United States
• Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States
• Death rate from natural disastersIHME, age-standardized
• Death rate from natural disastersIHME, crude
• Death rate from natural disastersWHO
• Deaths from earthquakes
• Deaths from natural disasters as a share of total deaths
• Deaths from natural disasters by type
• Decadal average: Death rates from natural disasters
• Decadal average: Number of deaths from natural disasters
• Direct disaster economic loss
• Direct economic loss attributed to disasters
• Direct economic loss from disasters as a share of GDP
• Disaster risk reduction progress score
• Drought severity index
• Economic damage by natural disaster type
• Fatality rates due to lightning in the US
• Fatality rates in the US due to weather events
• Frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes
• Global damage costs from natural disasters
• Global injuries from natural disasters
• Global natural disaster death rates
• Global number affected by natural disasters
• Global precipitation anomaly
• Global reported natural disasters by type
• Global weather disaster losses as a share of GDP
• How many deaths does it take for a disaster in different continents to receive news coverage?
• How many deaths does it take for a disaster to receive news coverage?
• Hurricane landfalls in the United States
• Intensity error
• Largest confirmed impact craters on Earth by diameter
• Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
• News coverage of disasters
• News coverage of disasters, by continent
• Number left homeless from natural disasters
• Number of deaths from natural disasters by type
• Number of deaths from volcanic eruptions
• Number of local governments that adopt disaster risk reduction strategies
• Number of recorded natural disaster events
• Number of significant volcanic eruptions
• Number of wildfires in the United States
• People displaced internally by natural disasters
• Power Dissipation Index (PDI) of North Atlantic cyclones
• Precipitation anomaly in the United States
• Rate of deaths and missing persons due to natural disasters
• Score of adoption and implementation of national strategies for managing disaster risk
• Share of US land area that experienced extreme one-day precipitation
• Share of US land area with unusually high annual precipitation
• Share of US land area with unusually high summer temperatures
• Share of US land area with unusually low winter temperatures
• Share of local governments that adopted and implemented local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national strategies
• Significant earthquakes per year
• Track error
• Wildfire acres burned in the United States