Droughts, floods, extreme temperatures (% of population, average 1990-2009)

Current and recent droughts alerts from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), a cooperation of the United Nations and the European Commission, with alert level, severity and affected population.

Current and recent floods alerts from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), a cooperation of the United Nations and the European Commission, with alert level, severity and affected population.

Average precipitation is the long-term average in depth (over space and time) of annual precipitation in the country. Precipitation is defined as any kind of water that falls from clouds as a liquid or a solid.

The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as moderately or severely food insecure. A household is classified as moderately or severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to low quality diets and might have been forced to also reduce the quantity of food they would normally eat because of a lack of money or other resources.

The FAOSTAT Temperature change on land domain disseminates statistics of mean surface temperature change by country, with annual updates. Statistics are available for monthly, seasonal and annual mean temperature anomalies, i.e., temperature change with respect to a baseline climatology, corresponding to the period 1951–1980. The standard deviation of the temperature change of the baseline methodology is also available. Data are based on the publicly available GISTEMP data, the Global Surface Temperature Change data distributed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA-GISS).

Agricultural irrigated land refers to agricultural areas purposely provided with water, including land irrigated by controlled flooding.