In 2023, Peru experienced a total of four climate change-related disasters. Just two years earlier, the South American country had the most climate change-related disasters within a single year since 1990, with a total of eight floods occurring that year.
Number of climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 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 climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Climate Change-related Disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Number of climate change-related disasters in Peru from 1990 to 2023 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1410640/number-of-climate-change-related-disasters-peru/
