Incidents in Asia
32,687 incidents have been recorded across 48 countries in Asia by Global Incident Tracker, 30,210 of them in 2026. Mining accidents make up a larger share of the record here than anywhere else in the world. These are incidents our sources reported, not a regional total.
Continuous monitoring began 9 August 2026. These counters show what we have recorded since then, not everything that happened.
What Asia records more of than the world
Every region has a different shape. This compares each hazard's share of Asia's own record against its share of the global record — so a figure above 1.0 means the hazard is a bigger part of the picture here than it is anywhere else, regardless of how large the region is.
Read these as a measure of the record, not of danger. A ratio is shaped by two things at once: what actually happens, and who reports it. Hazards with no official feed anywhere — air, road and rail accidents, building collapses, fires, blasts — reach us only through news, so a region with dense local media will show more of them than a region with sparse media, even when the underlying risk is the same. A high number here means we hold more records, and that is not the same claim.
| Hazard | Records | Share here | vs world |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mine Accident | 82 | 0.3% | 3.30× |
| Drowning | 153 | 0.5% | 3.16× |
| Avalanche | 86 | 0.3% | 3.14× |
| Landslide | 399 | 1.2% | 2.96× |
| Building Collapse | 1,095 | 3.3% | 2.94× |
| Terror Attack | 85 | 0.3% | 2.67× |
Countries in Asia
| # | Country | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 12,192 |
| 2 | India | 3,553 |
| 3 | Turkey | 3,458 |
| 4 | Philippines | 2,413 |
| 5 | Japan | 2,228 |
| 6 | Nepal | 1,374 |
| 7 | China | 1,227 |
| 8 | Israel | 719 |
| 9 | Thailand | 590 |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 486 |
| 11 | Pakistan | 433 |
| 12 | Iran | 413 |
| 13 | Vietnam | 377 |
| 14 | Timor-Leste | 334 |
| 15 | Afghanistan | 285 |
| 16 | Iraq | 227 |
| 17 | Myanmar | 227 |
| 18 | Palestine | 219 |
| 19 | Malaysia | 192 |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | 162 |
| 21 | Taiwan | 159 |
| 22 | Georgia | 157 |
| 23 | Syria | 152 |
| 24 | South Korea | 142 |
| 25 | Yemen | 115 |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 111 |
| 27 | Lebanon | 105 |
| 28 | Sri Lanka | 94 |
| 29 | Tajikistan | 81 |
| 30 | Mongolia | 56 |
and 18 more — see every country.
When Asia is busiest
September carries the most records we hold for Asia. This is when incidents were reported, so read a quiet month as either a quiet month or thin reporting.
| Month | Recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| January | 596 | |
| February | 482 | |
| March | 474 | |
| April | 783 | |
| May | 500 | |
| June | 873 | |
| July | 707 | |
| August | 2,410 | |
| September | 16,519 | |
| October | 8,339 | |
| November | 513 | |
| December | 491 |
How much of this is news, not data
26% of what we hold for Asia falls in hazard categories that have no official real-time feed anywhere in the world — building collapses, road and rail accidents, fires, blasts, stampedes. Those records exist because a journalist wrote something.
That number is worth carrying with every other number on this page. Which hazards have no feed →