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Daily chart: the world’s costliest natural disasters The World Bank has estimated the economic damage resulting from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami at $235 billion, around 4% of GDP. That would make this disaster the costliest since comparable records began.
US cost so much? And how is Haiti not on here?