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

India

4.90 million people

in 2019

Zimbabwe

7.60 million people

in 2024

India rank

8th

Zimbabwe rank

5th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

Zimbabwe currently reports 7.60 million people against 4.90 million people in India, a difference of 2.70 million people.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.6 times India's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 10 shared years of data; in 1982 it was India ahead.

India ranks 8th and Zimbabwe ranks 5th 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.