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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
Government Watch: the executive, tracked over time.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
Realised losses · 2000 to 2026
The exposure atlas maps the hazards ahead. This page records the losses already booked: the people killed, the lives disrupted and the money washed away by floods, cyclones and other natural disasters since 2000. It is the ledger every adaptation budget is implicitly arguing about.
Year by year
Source: EM-DAT, the international disaster database (CRED, UCLouvain), national totals for Bangladesh. Each row sums all recorded natural-disaster events in that year. Deaths and events are counts; damage is nominal reported US dollars, not inflation-adjusted, and is under-reported in years where economic losses were never formally estimated (shown as n/a or a low figure). The cumulative people-affected total counts repeated exposure across years, so it is person-times affected rather than distinct individuals. Years with 500 or more deaths are shaded. 2007 is dominated by Cyclone Sidr. For the hazards still ahead, see the exposure atlas.