EM-DAT Public Data
Living global disaster-country flat table, 1900-present, updated weekly and available as a complete XLSX after registration. Commercial entities can buy a documented annual licence.
Questions this answers
3 · best fit firstThe licensed weekly table provides event and country identity, dates, geography, event-year and CPI-adjusted total damage, reconstruction cost, and last update on a stated basis.
The non-contributory registered and commercially licensable EM-DAT full XLSX supplies a living 1900-present disaster-country history with disaster type and subtype, country and administrative units, event period, total and insured damage in event-year USD thousands, CPI-adjusted values, entry date, and last update. The weekly release or download date supplies the dataset as-of pin; missing values and EM-DAT inclusion methodology remain part of interpretation.
The non-contributory commercially licensable weekly disaster-country XLSX supplies matched total and insured damage, adjusted and unadjusted, with disaster type, geography, event period, entry date, and update date. Their difference or ratio supports a historical catastrophe protection-gap benchmark; it does not identify Commercial P&C versus personal coverage, underinsurance, or prospective all-peril gap.
Fields it delivers
19 fieldsEM-DAT describes the public table as a global disaster database covering countries worldwide from 1900 onward; inclusion thresholds mean not every event is recorded.
EM-DAT’s no-cost public edition is limited to noncommercial use, so an ordinary business buyer must use the paid data-licensing route. The free edition is an alternative only for qualifying noncommercial use.
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