Title: Are Natural Disasters Increasing? | The Borgen Project
Headings: Are Natural Disasters Increasing?
Global Poverty
Are Natural Disasters Increasing?
Natural Disasters: An Upward Trend
Human Contributions to Natural Disasters
Number of recorded natural disaster events, All natural
disasters, 1900 to 2019

Content: But how are humans helping to create typhoons, hurricanes, and earthquakes? Human Contributions to Natural Disasters
A swell in population plays a large part in natural disasters. Some scientists theorize that natural disasters are not just necessarily increasing, but our methods of tracking them are improving. With the ability to keep record of these disasters, scientists notice them more frequently than in the past. Limited means of keeping track of the natural disasters meant that the average could not be compared to previous accounts. Through increasing population, more injuries or deaths occur, even with minor storms. Generally, tropical vacation areas are hot spots for climate tragedies. With hundreds to thousands of individuals clustered in one region, storms can wipe out more surface area in a shorter period of time. Corresponding with the World Bank’s “Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis” reports show that over 160 countries hold more than one-fourth of their populations in regions of high mortality risks from one or more natural disasters.