Natural disasters leave enormous economic damages and innumerable human losses. Between 1970 and 2019, floods cost Mozambique 0.61 percent of the country's GDP. Two of the 10 most expensive natural disasters occurred in Africa over the last decades were floods.
Economic damages caused by floods as a share of GDP in selected African countries between 1970 and 2019
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