Nearly 6.1 million people in Africa’s most populous country were displaced by widespread flooding, making it last year’s second-largest disaster-induced displacement worldwide. Floods are common in Nigeria, especially over the past five years, but last year’s were the worst — livestock populations were ravaged and thousands of bridges, homes and roads, as well as farmland, were destroyed.
How Natural Disasters Changed the World in 2012
Last year, an estimated 32.4 million people worldwide were forced from their homes due to natural disasters. Here, 10 countries that suffered some of the worst displacements, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council