Climate change plays a huge factor in how our Earth reacts. The
number of natural disasters has increased a lot in the last century and it is
due to climate change. The number of natural disasters in 2019 was three times
as many as thirty years ago. 820 of these natural disasters caused insured
losses in 2019.
The number of people carrying insurance for natural
disasters has doubled since 1980. Humankind is delving deeper into nature which
causing an imbalance in the procedure and resulting in natural disasters.
According to an insurance company, the total cost of damage
in the shape of natural disasters since 1980 was approximately $5 trillion –
only of which a quarter was insured. The most expensive natural disaster was
the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which registered around $210 billion
in damage.
Take a look at the following infographic which sheds a light
on the rising number of natural disasters around the globe since 1980.
Infographic by: statista
