Many types, high frequency, wide distribution, serious loss and huge social impact are the basic situation of China's disasters. And these are also the important component of China's condition.
Compared with other countries, the disasters in our country are relatively serious. The 30% of major natural disasters in the world in 20th century took place in China.
The map for death population because of disasters in the world compared the death population of natural disasters and non-natural disasters and the consequence is that China has the most death people because of natural disasters but less than Ethiopia and Bangladesh in the world.
There are a lot of serious disasters in China and a large population of death and disappear because of the disasters.Our country just take 7% national territorial area of the world, but we suffered from 33% earthquakes, and the death population because of the earthquakes took 55% of the world.
The information is provided from Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service.
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