Australia vs Brazil: Global number of reported disasters by size

Australia
2 events
in 2025
Brazil
4 events
in 2025
Australia rank
5th
Brazil rank
3rd

Global number of reported disasters by size over time

  • Australia
  • Brazil
02468193919822025

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 4 events against 2 events in Australia, a difference of 2 events.

That makes Brazil's figure about 2.0 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Brazil ahead.

Australia ranks 5th and Brazil ranks 3rd of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Global number of reported disasters by size
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
200 places, 6,037 data points, 1900–2025
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.