The Red Cross has released this year's edition of its annual publication, The World Disasters Report 2014. This year the focus is on culture and risk.
Table 10 of the report shows that in the past ten years, almost two million people have been affected by all disasters (technological and natural), with more than 95% of these people being affected by "climato-, hydro- and meteorological disasters". Of the people reported killed in disasters in the past decade (Table 6):
- 329,000 (31%) died as a result of climato-, hydro- and meteorological disasters
- 651,000 (61%) died as a result of earthquakes and tsunamis
- 80,000 (8%) died as a result of technological disasters (eg industrial and transport accidents).
