Disaster Risk Management

A comprehensive collection of data on development issues, including: World Development Indicators (WDI), the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development, and the Microdata Library, a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations.

Explore case studies and best practices on the use of open data for disaster risk reduction.

EM-DAT contains data on the occurrence and impacts of over 26,000 mass disasters worldwide from 1900 to the present day. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, reinsurance companies, research institutes, and press agencies. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) distributes the data in open access for non-commercial use.

This database provides descriptions of a large variety of satellite imagery, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. You can search the database by data type or hazard as well as by other relevant factors including costs, temporal or spatial coverage, satellite or file types.

Global reports on the human and economic impacts of disasters.