Malawi vs Niger: Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters

Malawi
3.48 million people
in 2025
Niger
4.40 million people
in 2022
Malawi rank
13th
Niger rank
10th

Annual number of people affected by all natural disasters over time

  • Malawi
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 4.40 million people against 3.48 million people in Malawi, a difference of 921,090 people.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.3 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 10 shared years of data; in 1988 it was Niger ahead.

Malawi ranks 13th and Niger ranks 10th 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.