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Global climate disasters 2025~India-Pakistan monsoon floods ranked fifth among top 10 costliest disasters
The Statesman Delhi
|December 28, 2025
Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods and storms cost the world more than $120 billion in 2025, according to a new Christian Aid report, 'Counting the Cost 2025'.
As the year ends, the report identifies the 10 most expensive and impactful climate disasters with Asia accounting for four of the six costliest disasters.The June-September flooding in India and Pakistan is ranked fifth among the costliest climate-related disasters in 2025, killing more than 1,860 people, affecting over seven million people in Pakistan alone, and under scoring the high cost of extreme weather events and escalating risks to both human lives and national economies. The exceptionally heavy monsoon season across large parts of India and Pakistan from June to September triggered landslides, cloudbursts and deadly flash floods. E
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