A total of three people across Costa Rica lost their lives due to climate change-related disasters in 2021. Over the past three decades, figures reached a record high in 1996, when a total of 60 people died due to storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters related to climate change.
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021
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 human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Human Deaths Due to Climate Change-related Disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Costa Rica from 1991 to 2021 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409784/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-costa-rica/
