(VOVworld) - Ending extreme poverty was essential to save lives and limit the damage from disasters, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said, as figures revealed poorer nations bear the brunt of deaths from earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms and heat waves.
An analysis of more than 7,000 disasters over the past two decades, in which 1.35 million people died, showed 90 percent of those deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries.
Ban called it "a damning indictment of inequality" and warned "hundreds of millions of people" are at risk of rising seas, earthquakes, and climate and weather extremes.
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| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon |
An analysis of more than 7,000 disasters over the past two decades, in which 1.35 million people died, showed 90 percent of those deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries.
Ban called it "a damning indictment of inequality" and warned "hundreds of millions of people" are at risk of rising seas, earthquakes, and climate and weather extremes.
