Biggest natural disasters worldwide by economic damage up to 2023

From 1980 to July 2023, the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan in 2011 caused the highest economic damage, with losses reaching 210 billion U.S. dollars. The tsunami hit the nuclear plant at Fukushima, causing a nuclear disaster in the area. Second was the Hurricane Katrina that hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, where the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans were especially affected. In terms of fatalities, the earthquake and the resulting tsunami in the Indian ocean in 2004 caused the highest death toll.