Over the past three decades, Uruguay saw the largest number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in 2022, with a total of 409,000 people. This was the highest figure recorded since 2007, when Uruguay experienced severe floods that hit particularly hard the center of the South American country. Climate change-related disasters include storms, floods, wet mass movements, extreme temperatures, droughts and fires.
Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022
According to the source, a disaster is a calamitous and sudden event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, economic and environmental loss that exceeds the capacity of the affected community or society to cope with the situation with their own resources.
Climate change-related disasters included are storms, extreme temperatures, floods, wet mass displacement, droughts, and wildfires.
The source did not provide data for the missing years.
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (January 2, 2024). Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 01, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of People Directly Affected by Climate Change-related Disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/ (last visited January 01, 2025)
Number of people directly affected by climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2022 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409747/number-of-people-affected-by-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
