The data contained in the report "The Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2010" prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). Published Tuesday, October 26, 2010, this is the first time the United Nations prepare a special report on natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific.
The report, as described on page ESCAP, detailing a list of countries in the Asia Pacific region experienced natural disasters during the period 1980-2009. Natural disasters are good form, floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and others.
Indonesia ranked fourth in the number of cases of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. During 1980-2009, the country experienced 312 cases. Occupied the first rank of China (574 cases), followed by India (416), Philippines (349), and Indonesia.
However, based on the number of deaths is the highest rating, Indonesia ranked second, below Bangladesh. UN records contained at least 191,164 people killed by natural disasters in Indonesia during 1980-2009. In Bangladesh, natural disaster in 20 years claimed the lives of 191,650 people.
For economic losses caused by natural disasters, Indonesia is ranked eighth. During 1980-2009, the country suffered economic damage worth U.S. $ 22.5 billion. Determination that nominal loss beradasarkan at the UN in 2005 the price of research. China occupied the first rank, which is worth U.S. $ 322 billion.
Meanwhile, in the category of survivors who suffered losses from disasters, Indonesia is in ninth position. During 1980-2009, there were at least 18 million people in Indonesia who suffer from disasters even though they survived. China occupied the first rank, which is about 2.5 billion citizens.
ESCAP-UNISDR report also revealed that countries in the Asia-Pacific region was hit four times more vulnerable to natural disasters than in Africa, even 25 times more vulnerable than in Europe and North America.
The report also considered that the losses caused by natural disasters compounded by poverty. Suffered a greater degree of vulnerability of the poor and is derived from socio-economic inequality and the natural environment.
"As far as inequality is not addressed, they are constantly at risk of hit by natural disasters will remain poor and increasingly vulnerable also hit by the disaster. This situation creates a vicious cycle making it difficult to get out," said Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of ESCAP, in a joint statement with Magaretha Wahlstrom, UN Special Envoy for Disaster Reduction.
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