Brazil vs Nepal: Global number of reported disasters by size

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

Global number of reported disasters by size over time

  • Brazil
  • Nepal
01234193419792025

How they compare

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

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

The two have swapped places 13 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Nepal ahead.

Brazil ranks 3rd 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.