Over the past three decades, economic costs from climate change-related disasters in Jamaica reached a record high of 895 million U.S. dollars in 2004. That year, Jamaica was struck by hurricane Ivan.
Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017
(in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
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Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017
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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. (February 13, 2024). Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 02, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409813/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-jamaica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)." Chart. February 13, 2024. Statista. Accessed March 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409813/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-jamaica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409813/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-jamaica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Economic Cost of Climate Change-related Disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017 (in 1,000 U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Feb 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409813/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-jamaica/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Jamaica from 1991 to 2017 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409813/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-jamaica/ (last visited March 02, 2025)
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