Catastrophes in 2015: lobal overvie Number of events: 5 here ere 1†‡ natural catastrophes in ”ase‚ on sigma criteria… there ere 5 catastrophe events across the orl‚ in 2015… an‚ 155 man‰ma‚e ‚isaster 2015… up from † in 201„ˆ ™f those… 1†‡ ere natural catastrophes… the hihest eventsˆ ever recor‚e‚ in one year… an‚ up from 1†1 in 201„ˆ he remainin 155 events ere man‰ma‚e ‚isasters… also more than the 1„‡ that occurre‚ in 201„ˆ Figure 1 300 Number of catastrophic events… Natural catastrophes 1†0–2015 250 Man-made disasters 200 150 100 50 0 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Man-made disasters Natural catastrophes ‘ource: ‘iss e Economic esearch ¦ Consultin an‚ Cat •erilsˆ he sigma event selection criteriaˆ An event is classifie‚ as a catastrophe an‚ inclu‚e‚ in the sigma ‚atabase hen insure‚ claims… total losses or the number of casualties excee‚ certain threshol‚s… ‚etaile‚ in able1ˆ Table 1 “nsure‚ losses šclaims› he sigma even selection criteria… 2015 Šaritime ‚isasters 1†ˆ million Aviation †ˆ million ™ther losses „‡ˆ‡ million or otal economic losses †ˆ million or Casualties ’ea‚ or missin 20 “n ure‚ 50 žomeless 2000 ‘ource: ‘iss e Economic esearch ¦ Consultin an‚ Cat •erilsˆ 2 Swiss Re sigma No 1/2016