Australia vs Nepal: Global number of reported disasters by size

Australia
2 events
in 2025
Nepal
2 events
in 2025
Australia rank
5th
Nepal rank
5th

Global number of reported disasters by size over time

  • Australia
  • Nepal
02468193419792025

How they compare

Australia currently reports 2 events against 2 events in Nepal, a difference of 0 events.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 49 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Nepal ahead.

Australia ranks 5th and Nepal ranks 5th 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.