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Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, Guterres says on International Day

From 1970 until 2000, the costs of disaster averaged $70-$80 billion. Those mainly preventable costs doubled this century to average $180-$200 billion annually, according to a recent report published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).  

Source: https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/10/1166088

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