Dataset · World Bank Group
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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024 | 98 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 98 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 98 | 0 | |
Adults who experienced a natural disaster or severe weather in the past three years (%)disaster_experienceHeadline | The headline figure: Adults who experienced a natural disaster or severe weather in the past three years (% of population aged 15+). | Number · up to 16 decimals | 2.738 | 98 | 0 | |
FemalefemaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 8.13 | 81 | 17 | |
MalemaleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 9.31 | 81 | 17 |
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.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 40 |
| Americas | 17 |
| Asia | 29 |
| Europe | 12 |
| Oceania | 0 |
| All | 98 |
One year, covering 98 countries.
Not in this dataset · 127 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per year
It downloads as a CSV: disaster-experience-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- 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.
Charted
Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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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.