India vs Somalia: Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters

India

4.90 million people

in 2019

Somalia

5.60 million people

in 2025

India rank

8th

Somalia rank

6th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

Somalia currently reports 5.60 million people against 4.90 million people in India, a difference of 697,170 people.

That makes Somalia's figure about 1.1 times India's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 9 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Somalia ahead.

India ranks 8th and Somalia ranks 6th 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.