Natural Climatological Drought Disasters, 1900 to 2015

<p style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:
0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;'>This Map
shows natural climatological drought disasters occurrence from 1900 to 2015.
The data source is from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of
Disasters, EM-DAT database.</span></p>

<p style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:
0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;'>EM-DAT is
a global database on natural and technological disasters that contains
essential core data on the occurrence and effects climatological disasters in
the world from 1900 to present. EM-DAT is maintained by the Centre for Research
on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the School of Public Health of the
Université catholique de Louvain located in Brussels, Belgium. The database is
compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental
organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.<u><span style='color:#0000EE'> </span></u>The main objective of the database is to
serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels
in order to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as
providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.<u>
</u>In EM-DAT data are considered at the country level for two reasons: first,
it is at this level that they are usually reported; and second, it allows the
aggregation and disaggregation of data.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 
</span>In order to facilitate the comparison over time, the event start date
has been used as the disaster reference date.</span></p>

<p style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:
0in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;'> Affected
people are the number of people requiring immediate assistance during a period
of emergency; this may include displaced or evacuated people. Total affected
are the sum of injured, homeless and affected. Total Deaths are the number of
people who lost their life because the event happened (it includes also the
missing people based on official figures).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 
</span>Homeless are the number of people whose house is destroyed or heavily
damaged and therefore need shelter after an event.</span></p>