Eswatini vs Lesotho: Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters

Eswatini
232,000 people
in 2019
Lesotho
335,764 people
in 2025
Eswatini rank
42nd
Lesotho rank
40th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

  • Eswatini
  • Lesotho
0200.0k400.0k600.0k196819962025

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 335,764 people against 232,000 people in Eswatini, a difference of 103,764 people.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.4 times Eswatini's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 10 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Lesotho ahead.

Eswatini ranks 42nd and Lesotho ranks 40th of 78 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters
Unit
people
Source
EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
78 places, 1,202 data points, 1900–2025
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Total number of people affected by a natural disaster.