Pakistan Floods

2022-09-01

The number of people impacted by the floods in Pakistan right now is the size of a small country.

	Population (millions)
Sri Lanka	22.2
Australia	25.8
Ghana	31.7
Malaysia	32.8
Pakistan (as of August 27)	33
Peru	33.4
Uzbekistan	34.9
Saudi Arabia	35.3

Swaths of the country are now underwater, after what United Nation officials have described as a "monsoon on steroids" brought the heaviest rainfall in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million since mid-June.

Pakistan flood created a 100km-wide lake, satellite images show - CNN

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