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A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society causing human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts that exceed the society’s ability to cope using its own resources. No official statistics are compiled on the number of dead, missing and affected persons in connection with disasters. However, Statistics Faroe Islands estimates that the numbers are very small.

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Indicator

Indicator 13.1.1: Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
Target

Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
Metadata update

2018-03-01
International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring

United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
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