Economic losses from climate-related extremes in Europe (1980-2022), Oct. 2023

This metadata considers the 2022 data including the year 2010 Euro equivalent values as a baseline on total and insured economic losses and the number of fatalities from weather- and climate-related events in EU Member States and EEA member countries since 1980. Weather- and climate-related hazards considered are those types classified as meteorological hazards (e.g. storms), hydrological hazards (e.g. floods) and climatological hazards (e.g. heatwaves) based on the classification by the International Council for Science (ICSU). The geophysical hazards (e.g. earthquakes and volcanoes) are included for comparison purposes. An event can occur in several countries, but the information is split per country.

The data is based on the RiskLayer CATDAT datasets (received under institutional agreement), and on the Eurostat collection of economic indicators, whereas data from earlier years not covered by Eurostat have been completed using data from the Annual Macro-Economic Database of the European Commission (AMECO), the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO), the Total Economy Database (TED) and the World Bank database. The average population of a country over the period of the time series is used.

The data contains details related to EEA’s indicator “Economic losses from climate-related events in Europe” ( https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/economic-losses-from-climate-related), updated annually. Additional detail on the data and the indicator can be found in the EEA briefing "Economic losses and fatalities from weather- and climate-related events in Europe", 2023 ( https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/economic-losses-and-fatalities-from/economic-losses-and-fatalities-from).

Date (Creation): 2023-09-15

Date (Publication): 2023-10-20

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_t_losses-from-climate-related-extremes_p_1980-2022_v01_r00

Status: Superseded

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

Point of contact

No information provided.

Keywords

GEMET

climate change
climate change adaptation
economic data

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

EEA32 (from 2020)

EEA Management Plan

2023 2.3.8

EEA topics

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 1980-01-01

End date: 2022-12-31

Description: EEA38 (from 2020)

Distribution format

Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx) ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_losses-from-climate-related-extremes_p_1980-2022_v01_r00/	Excel format
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/dce6f248-c77c-4ee7-b9c8-b43d42934174	Direct download
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://tableau-public.discomap.eea.europa.eu/views/Economic_losses_standAlone_2024/Economic_Losses?%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y	Economic losses from climate-related extremes in Europe
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/knowledge/economic-losses/economic-losses-and-fatalities	Climate-adapt platform
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/economic-losses-from-climate-related	EEA Indicator; Economic losses from weather- and climate-related extremes in Europe - 8th EAP

OnLine resource

No information provided.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: The data is based on the individual event records received from the data providers. However, EEA not being the owner of the data, no other detail than the data accessible here can be disclosed by EEA.

The information from CATDATA with data per event is presented:

* by country (as in the latest year of the times series, e.g. events that happened in Czechoslovakia are assigned to Czechia and/or Slovakia based on the location information of the event); or

* by year (grouped for the EU-27 Member States and the EEA-33 member countries); or

* per hazard type (only for weather- and climate-related hazards or including geophysical ones). Due to its impact on fatalities, when presented per hazard type climatological data are split in between heatwaves and other climatological events (e.g. cold spells, wildfires).

Data have been adjusted to account for inflation and are presented in constant prices expressed for the latest year of the time series: for example, for the data 1980-2020, all values are expressed in 2020-euro values.