Over the past three decades, Paraguay saw the largest death toll from climate change-related disasters in 1998, after a total of 55 people lost their lives. Meanwhile, in 2023 no people died due to climate change-related disasters in the South American country. Climate change-related disasters include storms, floods, wet mass movements, extreme temperatures, droughts and fires.
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023
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 Paraguay from 1997 to 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed November 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Human Deaths Due to Climate Change-related Disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/ (last visited November 24, 2024)
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Paraguay from 1997 to 2023 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409806/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-paraguay/
