In 2023, a total of 12 people across Venezuela lost their lives due to climate change-related disasters. This represented a decrease when compared to the previous year, down from 140 people. Since 1993, figures reached a record high in 1999, when a total of 30,000 people died due to storms, floods, fires and other natural disasters related to climate change. In December that year, torrential rains in the northern state of La Guaira – known as Vargas State until 2019 – caused flooding and debris flows that killed thousands of people – what is known as the Vargas tragedy.
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Venezuela from 1993 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 Venezuela from 1993 to 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 05, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Venezuela from 1993 to 2023." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed January 05, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Venezuela from 1993 to 2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 05, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Human Deaths Due to Climate Change-related Disasters in Venezuela from 1993 to 2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Venezuela from 1993 to 2023 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/ (last visited January 05, 2025)
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Venezuela from 1993 to 2023 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409827/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-venezuela/
