Storms were noted as the most deadly disaster, accounting for 242,000 deaths — 40percentt of all weather-related deaths.
It is difficult to make any definitive predictions at this point in time regarding the depth of a renewed Japanese recession, or the ultimate cost of rebuilding, but Barclay's Capital estimates that damage from the disaster could equal up to 3% of Japan's GDP (US$125-200125-200n), since the areas hardest hit by the disaster accounted for 6-76-7% Japanese GDP.
The medical aspects of a disaster account for less than 10% of resource and personnel expenditure.
During the period 2000 2007, losses as a result of typhoon disasters accounted for one-third of all losses caused by hydrometeorological disasters in Shenzhen (Wu and Li 2009).
As reported by European Gas Pipeline Incident Data Group, the accidents caused by geological disasters accounted for 13% of the total amount of gas pipeline accidents which happened in Europe from 2004 to 2013, of which landslides accounted for 85.2% of all geological disasters, forming the leading geological disaster type (EGIG 2015).
Heat and cold illnesses, malarial, vector-borne diseases, meningitis and environmental disasters account for the rest of the deaths attributable to direct climate impacts.
Weather-related disasters account for 90percentt of all disasters, according to the report, although less-frequently occurring events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes often garner more media attention.
Hydrological disasters accounted for 57% of total disaster victims in 2011.
Children displaced as a result of armed conflicts, human rights abuses, and natural disasters account for up to 5% of the global refugee population; in 2012 alone, more than 21 000 asylum claims were lodged for displaced children. 1 Policy responses to this problem must balance two competing factors: the protection of children and the preservation of the family.
