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Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather

Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024 · 98 countries · 3 measures

This is the share of adults who say a natural disaster or severe weather — a flood, a drought, a storm — hit them personally in the past three years, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. It is exposure as people report living through it, not as a hazard map predicts it.

This site holds one year, Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather · the file

Newest
Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024
Held
1 year · 98 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

01One year

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every year of Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 202498—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: disaster-experience-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—980
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—980
Adults who experienced a natural disaster or severe weather in the past three years (%)disaster_experienceHeadlineThe headline figure: Adults who experienced a natural disaster or severe weather in the past three years (% of population aged 15+).Number · up to 16 decimals2.738Montenegro77.542Philippinesmiddle 20.455980
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 15 decimals8.13Costa Rica77.10Philippinesmiddle 21.478117
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 15 decimals9.31Kyrgyzstan78.00Philippinesmiddle 24.398117

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

0398 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, by continent.
2024
Africa40
Americas17
Asia29
Europe12
Oceania0
All98

One year, covering 98 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per year

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From World Bank Data360 (Global Findex, WB_FINDEX_FIN24C, survey wave 2024), the Bank's own figures for adults aged 15 and over. Female and male shares are the Bank's own, where it publishes them.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/disaster-experience

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. The Global Findex Database 2025. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather: questions and answers

What is the Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather?

This is the share of adults who say a natural disaster or severe weather — a flood, a drought, a storm — hit them personally in the past three years, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. It is exposure as people report living through it, not as a hazard map predicts it.

Which years of the Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather can I download?

One: Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024, as a CSV file.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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