It has been proven scientifically that natural disasters have a greater impact on LEDCs than MEDs in a

number of different ways. In terms of the number of lives lost, it has been reported that between 1991
and 2005, 6300,00 people were killed by natural disasters in LEDCs, and 72,000 in MEDs. It is clearly seen
that the difference is drastical. Due to this results most people who die as a result of natural disasters
live in LEDCs

As far as economic impact is concerned, MEDCs have more developed infrastructure, which is very
expensive to repair or replace if it is damaged. It has been reported that the United States and Japan
suffered the most economic damage from natural disasters between 1995 and 2005.

With respect to social impact, it should also be stated that disasters have a greater social impact on
poorer people than better-off people. Scienists claim that despite the fact that a household on a lower
income may spend less in total terms than a wealthier household, they are likely to spend a higher of
their income on recovery.

From the point of view of health, it should be mentioned that healthcare facilities in LEDs are often less
able to cope with demand after a natural disaster occured. It has been repirted, for example, that in Haiti
after the 2010 earthquake, the medical services were unable to deal with the hude number of injured
people.

This can be made worse by the fact that a great number of poor people risk their lives living in disaster-
prone areas in order to make a living. For example, nost of the farming population of Bangladesh live in
low-lying parts of the country where severe floods occur regularly.

Finally, having showed the evidence to say that LEDC’s suffer more from the effects of natural hazards
than MEDC’s, LEDC’s are less capable of doing things in all areas. LEDC’s don’t have the money or
resources and so can’t predict or prepare or prevent and plan for the future. It shows that LEDC, 80% of
the world population use only 20% of the world’s resources. As they don’t have money they can’t help
the economy after the natural disasters, so every time a natural disaster happens in the same place it
will get worse and worse. To end LEDC’s will always suffer more from the effects of natural hazards than
MEDC’s .