Over the past three decades, economic costs from climate change-related disasters in Uruguay reached a record high of 500 million U.S. dollars in 2018. That year, the Latin American country was hit by a single climate change-related disaster event, in the form of a massive flooding.
Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019
(in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
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 Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 01, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)." Chart. February 13, 2024. Statista. Accessed January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Economic Cost of Climate Change-related Disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Feb 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/ (last visited January 01, 2025)
Economic cost of climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1991 to 2019 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars) [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, February 13, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411307/cost-of-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
