{"id": 1228120, "name": "Injured", "unit": "people", "createdAt": "2026-04-30T18:53:03.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-05-05T13:30:14.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1900-2026", "datasetId": 7814, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "injured", "catalogPath": "grapher/emdat/2026-04-30/natural_disasters_global_by_type/natural_disasters_global_by_type#injured", "descriptionShort": "People suffering from physical injuries, trauma or an illness requiring immediate medical assistance as a direct result of a disaster.", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "1494229976917400274", "metadataChecksum": "4592416298386922337", "datasetName": "Global natural disasters by type", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-04-30", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "people"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "EM-DAT", "topicTagsLinks": ["Natural Disasters"]}, "descriptionKey": ["EM-DAT counts injured as people with physical injuries, trauma, or illness requiring immediate medical assistance due to the disaster.", "EM-DAT defines a disaster as a situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to the national or international level for external assistance; an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction, and human suffering.", "Drought is defined as an extended period of unusually low precipitation that produces a shortage of water for people, animals, and plants. Drought is different from most other hazards in that it develops slowly, sometimes even over the years, and its onset is generally difficult to detect.", "An earthquake is defined as a sudden movement of a block of the Earth's crust along a geological fault and associated ground shaking. The data includes the impacts of earthquake events, aftershocks and tsunamis.", "Extreme temperature is used as a general term for temperature variations above (extreme heat) or below (extreme cold) normal conditions. Deaths from extreme temperatures are often indirect, meaning they are not reported or quantified without additional analysis and modelling. Some countries or regions increasingly do this work, but records are very geographically and temporally incomplete. This makes it hard to discern trends over time, or differences between countries.", "Storms include tornadoes, hailstorms, thunderstorms, sandstorms, blizzards, and extreme wind events.", "Flood is used as a general term for the overflow of water from a stream channel onto normally dry land in the floodplain (riverine flooding), higher-than-normal levels along the coast (coastal flooding) and in lakes or reservoirs as well as ponding of water at or near the point where the rain fell (flash floods). We also include glacial lake outburst floods in this category.", "Volcanic activity is defined as any type of volcanic event near an opening/vent in the Earth's surface including volcanic eruptions of lava, ash, hot vapor, gas, and pyroclastic material.", "A wildfire is defined as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, grassland, brush land or tundra, which consumes natural fuels and spreads based on environmental conditions (e.g., wind, or topography). Wildfires can be triggered by lightning or human actions.", "A landslide is the downslope movement of rock, soil, or debris under gravity. This includes both wet mass movements (such as mudflows triggered by heavy rain or snowmelt) and dry mass movements (such as rockfalls)."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1900}, {"id": 1901}, {"id": 1902}, {"id": 1903}, {"id": 1904}, {"id": 1905}, {"id": 1906}, {"id": 1907}, {"id": 1908}, {"id": 1909}, {"id": 1910}, {"id": 1911}, {"id": 1912}, {"id": 1913}, {"id": 1914}, {"id": 1915}, {"id": 1916}, {"id": 1917}, {"id": 1918}, {"id": 1919}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1921}, {"id": 1922}, {"id": 1923}, {"id": 1924}, {"id": 1925}, {"id": 1926}, {"id": 1927}, {"id": 1928}, {"id": 1929}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1931}, {"id": 1932}, {"id": 1933}, {"id": 1934}, {"id": 1935}, {"id": 1936}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1938}, {"id": 1939}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1941}, {"id": 1942}, {"id": 1943}, {"id": 1944}, {"id": 1945}, {"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}, {"id": 2026}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 352877, "name": "All disasters", "code": null}, {"id": 369455, "name": "All disasters excluding earthquakes", "code": null}, {"id": 369456, "name": "All disasters excluding extreme temperature", "code": null}, {"id": 34688, "name": "Drought", "code": null}, {"id": 34692, "name": "Earthquake", "code": null}, {"id": 34697, "name": "Extreme temperature", "code": null}, {"id": 34698, "name": "Extreme weather", "code": null}, {"id": 34695, "name": "Flood", "code": null}, {"id": 34696, "name": "Landslide", "code": null}, {"id": 34694, "name": "Volcanic activity", "code": null}, {"id": 34690, "name": "Wildfire", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 14420, "title": "The International Disasters Database", "description": "EM-DAT contains data on the occurrence and impacts of mass disasters worldwide from 1900 to the present day. EM-DAT data includes all categories classified as \"natural disasters\" (distinguished from technological disasters, such as oil spills and industrial accidents). This includes those from drought, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, extreme weather, floods, glacial lake outburst floods, mass movements, volcanic activity, and wildfires.", "producer": "EM-DAT", "citationFull": "EM-DAT - The International Disasters Database (2026). Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), part of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium.", "attribution": "EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain (2026)", "urlMain": "https://emdat.be/", "dateAccessed": "2026-04-30", "datePublished": "2026-04-28", "license": {"url": "https://doc.emdat.be/docs/legal/terms-of-use/", "name": "UCLouvain 2026"}}]}