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Brazil vs Peru: Global number of reported disasters by size per decade

Brazil
14 events
in 2020
Peru
16 events
in 2020
Brazil rank
5th
Peru rank
4th

Global number of reported disasters by size per decade over time

  • Brazil
  • Peru
051015191019652020

How they compare

Peru currently reports 16 events against 14 events in Brazil, a difference of 2 events.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 9 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Peru ahead.

Brazil ranks 5th and Peru ranks 4th of 156 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Global number of reported disasters by size per decade
Unit
events
Source
EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
157 places, 1,277 data points, 1900–2020
Last refreshed

Reported disasters that result in no more than 5 deaths, affect no more than 1,500 people, and cause economic damages not exceeding 13 million current US dollars. The economic threshold for previous years is adjusted for inflation accordingly.