In the first half of the current year, natural disasters caused 72 billion dollars of damage to the world economy.

According to APA, this information is contained in the report of the Swiss "Swiss Re" organization.

According to the authors of the report, in the corresponding period of last year, the material damage was more - 91 billion dollars.

Insurers suffered the most damage in Europe and Australia.

The damage to the eyes caused by man-made accidents has also decreased.

While the indicator was 95 billion dollars in the first half of last year, this year it decreased to 75 billion dollars.