In 2020, the number of people affected, injured, or left homeless due to storms across the globe amounted to roughly **** million. In the past three decades, the impact of storms were highest in 2002, with over *** million people affected. Overall, between 1990 and 2020, more than *** thousand deaths were caused by storms worldwide.
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