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

Haiti

499,765 people

in 2017

Lesotho

335,764 people

in 2025

Haiti rank

37th

Lesotho rank

40th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

Haiti currently reports 499,765 people against 335,764 people in Lesotho, a difference of 164,001 people.

That makes Haiti's figure about 1.5 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 7 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Haiti ahead.

Haiti ranks 37th and Lesotho ranks 40th of 78 countries.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total number of people affected by a natural disaster.