Bangladesh

Top 10 Natural Disasters

Disaster

Date

Killed

Disaster

Date

Famine

1943

Epidemic

Affected

1,900,000

Flood

Aug-1988

73,000,000

1918

393,000

Flood

22-Jul-1987

73,000,000

Wind storm

12-Nov-1970

300,000

Flood

Jul-1974

38,000,000

Wind storm

30-Apr-1991

138,866

Flood

May-1984

30,000,000

Wind storm

Oct-1942

61,000

Drought

5-Jul-1983

20,000,000

Wind storm

11-May-1965

36,000

Flood

Jul-1968

15,889,616

Flood

Jul-1974

28,700

Wind storm

30-Apr-1991

15,438,849

Wind storm

Jun-1965

12,047

Flood

8-Jul-1998

15,000,050

Wind storm

28-May-1963

11,500

Flood

15-Jun-1995

12,656,006

Wind storm

9-May-1961

11,000

Flood

Jul-1993

11,469,537

Source: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database,

Universit catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium"

http://www.cred.be/emdat/intro.htm Access time: 05/01/2003