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

Peru

16 events

in 2020

USSR

4 events

in 1990

Peru rank

4th

USSR rank

1st

Global number of reported disasters by size per decade over time

Peru
USSR

How they compare

Peru currently reports 16 events against 4 events in USSR, a difference of 12 events.

That makes Peru's figure about 4.0 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 1910 it was USSR ahead.

Peru ranks 4th and USSR ranks 1st 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: 07 August 2026

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.