Extreme weather events have cost the global economy nearly $4.3 billion over the past fifty years, according to data updated today. World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Organization founded in Geneva reported that 11 thousand 788 climatic and hydrological disasters the events of the last fifty years have caused the death of at least two million people worldwide.

“Unfortunately, the most vulnerable communities bear the brunt of natural disasters,” lamented the WMO Secretary-General in a press release. Petteri Taalas.

According to this organization, which is the representative United Nations on weather, climate and water – 90% of these deaths occurred in developing countries.

However, more than 60% of recorded economic losses, largely covered by insurance, affected the most developed economies of the planet, especially USAwhich has lost 1.7 billion euros due to climate disasters over the past half century.

However, for the strongest economies, almost no disaster alone has caused economic losses of more than 0.1% of their GDP.

across the continents Asia It was in it that the largest number of deaths associated with extreme weather events occurred: during the analyzed period, 984 thousand 263 people died (47% of the total).

Most of these deaths were caused by tropical cyclones such as Cyclone Nargiz more than 130 thousand people died in Bangladesh in 2008.