Nigeria vs Rwanda: Global number of reported disasters by size

Nigeria
0 events
in 2025
Rwanda
0 events
in 2024
Nigeria rank
66th
Rwanda rank
66th

Global number of reported disasters by size over time

  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
0246197419992025

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 0 events against 0 events in Rwanda, a difference of 0 events.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 20 shared years of data; in 1988 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 66th and Rwanda ranks 66th 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.