Lesotho vs Madagascar: Global number of reported disasters by size

Lesotho
1 events
in 2023
Madagascar
1 events
in 2025
Lesotho rank
15th
Madagascar rank
15th

Global number of reported disasters by size over time

  • Lesotho
  • Madagascar
00.511.52196819962025

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 1 events against 1 events in Madagascar, a difference of 0 events.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 14 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Madagascar ahead.

Lesotho ranks 15th and Madagascar ranks 15th 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.