Kenya vs Zambia: Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters

Kenya

1.07 million people

in 2025

Zambia

1.47 million people

in 2025

Kenya rank

31st

Zambia rank

28th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

Zambia currently reports 1.47 million people against 1.07 million people in Kenya, a difference of 392,510 people.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.4 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 9 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 31st and Zambia ranks 28th 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.