{"id":143100,"date":"2022-07-29T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/economic-losses-from-weather-related-events-1970-2060"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:05:40","slug":"economic-losses-from-weather-related-events-1970-2060","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/economic-losses-from-weather-related-events-1970-2060","title":{"rendered":"Economic losses from weather-related events, 1970\u20132060"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/economic-losses-from-weather-related-events-1970-20602.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This graph shows the worldwide economic losses from weather-related events, from 1970 through to the present day, with a future trend projected out to 2060.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The data here is from Swiss Re, the world\u2019s largest reinsurer, and is adjusted for inflation at 2021 prices. It excludes non-weather disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.<\/p>\n<p>A significant gap exists between the total economic damages and the losses protected by insurance. For example, the worldwide figure for weather-related disasters in 2021 amounted to $233.27 billion, of which insurance covered \u201conly\u201d $101.12 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph shows the worldwide economic losses from weather-related events, from 1970 through to the present day, with a future trend projected out to 2060. The data here is from Swiss Re, the world\u2019s largest reinsurer, and is adjusted for inflation at 2021 prices. It excludes non-weather disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}