Data on Ghana's flood crisis from 1935 to 2023 has revealed that a total of over 3,000 deaths related to floods have occurred.
The data shared by TV3 also shows that over 700,000 people have been displaced by floods in the past 88 years, while a whopping $1billion economic loss has been recorded.
The data further indicated that there were 18 separate flooding incidents in 2015 including the fatal June 3 fire and flood disaster that claimed over a hundred lives. 2023 recorded the highest flooding incidents in recent times with 20 cases recorded. 1935 was the first time Ghana's capital recorded massive flooding. 24 years later in 1959, another flooding incident in Accra was recorded.
The Northern Region recorded its share of the flooding in 1995 during which the havoc caused was huge.
