Global Landslide Mortality Risks and Distribution is a 2.5 by 2.5
minute grid of global landslide mortality risks. Gridded Population
of the World (GPW) Version 3 (beta) data provide a baseline
estimation of population per grid cell from which to estimate
potential mortality risks due to landslide hazard. Mortality loss
estimates per hazard event are caculated using regional,
hazard-specific mortality records of the Emergency Events Database
(EM-DAT) that span the 20 years between 1981 and 2000. Data regarding
the frequency and distribution of landslide hazard are obtained from
the Global Landslide Hazard Distribution dataset. In order to more
accurately reflect the confidence associated with the data and
procedures, the potential mortality estimate range is classified into
deciles, 10 classes of increasing risk with an approximately equal
number of grid cells per class, producing a relative estimate of
landslide-based mortality risks. The dataset is a result of the
collaboration among the Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR),
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank,
and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science
Information Network (CIESIN).