The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, an integral part of the Institute of Health and Society at the Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels, has released its Annual Disaster Statistical Review for 2011. The Executive Summary notes, that while the 332 natural disasters recorded in 2011 was down on the “annual average frequency observed from 2001 to 2010,” which was 384, “the human and economic impacts of the disasters in 2011 were massive. Natural disasters killed a total of 30, 773 people and caused 244.7 million victims worldwide. Economic damages from natural disasters were the highest ever registered, with an estimated US$366.1 million.”