Data
Days of extreme rainfall per year over land, world
Average number of days a year on which daily precipitation at a place on land exceeded its local 1961–1990 99th percentile, for each year of 1961–1990 and 1995–2024, from the Lancet Countdown (indicator 1.2.3) using the ERA5-Land reanalysis. It counts days of heavy rainfall, not floods, and is not attributed to climate change. The workbook has no values for 1991–1994.
Latest value
4.97days
World land, 2024. Version 2025 report.
Days of extreme rainfall per year over land, world (days per year above the local 1961–1990 99th percentile of daily precipitation, average over land)
Show as a table
| Period | Value (days) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3.33 | final |
| 1962 | 3.42 | final |
| 1963 | 3.92 | final |
| 1964 | 3.78 | final |
| 1965 | 3.26 | final |
| 1966 | 3.30 | final |
| 1967 | 3.78 | final |
| 1968 | 3.44 | final |
| 1969 | 3.65 | final |
| 1970 | 3.41 | final |
| 1971 | 3.41 | final |
| 1972 | 3.70 | final |
| 1973 | 3.73 | final |
| 1974 | 3.80 | final |
| 1975 | 3.61 | final |
| 1976 | 3.65 | final |
| 1977 | 3.76 | final |
| 1978 | 3.85 | final |
| 1979 | 3.78 | final |
| 1980 | 3.82 | final |
| 1981 | 3.88 | final |
| 1982 | 3.75 | final |
| 1983 | 3.67 | final |
| 1984 | 3.66 | final |
| 1985 | 3.68 | final |
| 1986 | 3.81 | final |
| 1987 | 3.57 | final |
| 1988 | 4.17 | final |
| 1989 | 3.73 | final |
| 1990 | 3.66 | final |
| 1995 | 4.00 | final |
| 1996 | 3.95 | final |
| 1997 | 4.07 | final |
| 1998 | 4.23 | final |
| 1999 | 3.97 | final |
| 2000 | 3.80 | final |
| 2001 | 3.57 | final |
| 2002 | 3.66 | final |
| 2003 | 3.69 | final |
| 2004 | 3.73 | final |
| 2005 | 3.89 | final |
| 2006 | 3.89 | final |
| 2007 | 3.90 | final |
| 2008 | 3.94 | final |
| 2009 | 3.76 | final |
| 2010 | 4.31 | final |
| 2011 | 4.20 | final |
| 2012 | 3.77 | final |
| 2013 | 4.16 | final |
| 2014 | 3.93 | final |
| 2015 | 4.06 | final |
| 2016 | 4.28 | final |
| 2017 | 4.20 | final |
| 2018 | 4.21 | final |
| 2019 | 4.15 | final |
| 2020 | 4.49 | final |
| 2021 | 4.19 | final |
| 2022 | 4.46 | final |
| 2023 | 4.29 | final |
| 2024 | 4.97 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (led by University College London) · Lancet Countdown 2025: heat, wildfire smoke, drought, extreme rain and deaths from air pollution
- Version
- 2025 report
- Fetched
- 2026-10-12 (automatically), 122,480 bytes
- Fingerprint
- sha256 279a4c3c331e29808fbadd715ab276ec9f7da624d2538e302b2444dc638e6f3bETag "1de70-6425ae20b4e0e" · Last-Modified Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:06:07 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- Romanello M, Walawender M, Hsu S-C, et al. The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change. Lancet 2025; published online Oct 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01919-1.
What was done to it
Read the column 'Avg count extreme events' of the sheet '2025 Report Data_Event_Global' of the indicator 1.2.3 (extreme precipitation) workbook of the Lancet Countdown 2025 report: the land-area-weighted average count of daily precipitation events above the 1961–1990 99th percentile, for each year of 1961–1990 and 1995–2024, published as in the workbook.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/impacts/lancet_countdown.py · code sha256 fecaf0b937e79c60… · inputs 279a4c3c331e…
The workbook has no values for 1991–1994, and none are published. The sheet of land shares with more or fewer events is not published (irregular nine- or ten-year windows, values stored as fractions under a '%' heading).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/impacts/lancet_countdown.py · code sha256 fecaf0b937e79c60… · inputs 279a4c3c331e…
What it covers
- Geography
- World land
- Basis
- Daily precipitation from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (grid cells of about 79 square kilometres), which does not directly assimilate rain-gauge data. An event is a day above the cell's 1961–1990 99th percentile; counts are averaged over land, weighted by area. The producer publishes only the baseline years 1961–1990 and the 30 recent years 1995–2024.
- Unit
- days per year above the local 1961–1990 99th percentile of daily precipitation, average over land (days)