Pakistan Floods Facts and Figures

Pakistan Floods 2022

This page relates to the Pakistan floods in 2010. If you are looking for the current Pakistan Floods Appeal 2022 click here.

PAKISTAN BEFORE THE FLOODS

  • Pakistan is 125th of 169 countries in the Human Development Index
  • 22% of people live in extreme poverty: they survive on less than $1.25 (US) per day
  • 23% of people are undernourished
  • 25th highest infant mortality rate in the world

THE IMPACT OF THE FLOODS

  • Unprecedented monsoon rains caused flooding of the Indus river, starting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, spreading South through Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh.
  • At its worst the flood waters covered roughly one-fifth of Pakistan’s land area
  • 18 million people were affected
  • 1,985 people killed
  • 12 million people’s homes were damaged or destroyed
  • 2.2 million hectares of crops were destroyed
  • 10,000 schools damaged or destroyed
  • 450,000 livestock lost

RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION HEADLINE ACHIEVEMENTS

  • 1.8 million people  reached by DEC  funded aid
  • 1 million people  given food
  • 510,000+ provided with clean water
  • 290,000+ people provided with emergency shelter
  • 200,000 people given mosquito nets to prevent malaria
  • 994 babies delivered
  • 26,000+ people benefitting from help to restart farming