In 2023, a total of four people across the Dominican Republic lost their lives due to climate change-related disasters – up from two fatalities recorded one year prior. Since 1991, the number of deaths reached a record high in 2004, when a total of 703 people died due to storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters related to climate change. That year, the Caribbean country experienced torrential rainfall that resulted in devastating floods and mudslides.
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in the Dominican Republic from 1991 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 the Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 04, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in the Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed January 04, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in the Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 04, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Human Deaths Due to Climate Change-related Disasters in The Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in the Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/ (last visited January 04, 2025)
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in the Dominican Republic from 1991 to 2023 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409820/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-dominican-republic/
