Flood Venezuela Hydrometeorological events

10 15 20 25

0 5

45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0

1 000 900

800 700 600 500 400 300 200

100 0

1970-1979 0

40 30 20 10

1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2009 1970

Affected people Millions of people

Thousands of people

Tropical cyclon Fifi Honduras 1974

1980 1990

in Latin America and the Caribbean Mortalities

Tropical cyclon Mitch Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El

Guadalupe, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

1998 2000 1999

Flood Haiti and Dominican Rep. Tropical cyclon Jeanne Haiti

Salvador, Costa Rica and Belize. Tropical cyclon Georges Cuba, Dominican Rep.,

2004

Tropical cyclon Stan Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti,

Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica

2005 2010

Events

Wildfires Extreme temperatures

Storms Drought

Floods

Each square represents 10 events

Estimated cost of damage Billions of US dollars

Source: The International Disasters Database, accessed in August 2010. Figure 1.10 13