China's direct economic losses from natural disasters totalled 199.36 billion yuan ($29.9 billion) in the first nine months of 2026, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Thursday, Reuters reported — yaani, $29.9 billion is about 2,990 crore dollars, and 199.36 billion yuan is about 19,936 crore yuan lost to typhoons, flooding, heavy rainfall and geological disasters in just nine months.

The ministry said the extreme disasters in the period included typhoons, flooding and heavy rainfall as well as geological disasters, Reuters reported. No province-by-province breakdown was given in the ministry's announcement as carried by Reuters.

The ministry also said 562 people had died or were missing from the deadly Nepal-Tibet disaster in August, leaving that toll unchanged from a previous announcement, Reuters reported. Awaaz Punjab is reporting that figure as the ministry stated it, attributed to the ministry, and is not adding any unverified casualty numbers of its own.

The nine-month total underlines the scale of climate and geological risk facing the world's second-largest economy, where summer typhoons and floods regularly disrupt farming, transport and industry, and where a single major disaster — such as the August Nepal-Tibet event — can dominate the national toll for an entire year.

Reuters reported the figures from Hong Kong on October 22, citing the Ministry of Emergency Management, with the conversion given by Reuters at $1 = 6.6743 Chinese yuan.