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The 7th annual statistical analysis of the Year 1999's natural catastrophes (NC) on the basis of various criteria and to refresh the reader's memory of these events visually. Chapters: picture of the year, and statistics; great NC in 1999: long-term statistics 1950-1999; the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction ends -- the climate summit in Bonn; NatCatSERVICE info.: effects of NC in economies at different stages of development; catastrophe portraits: a year of earthquakes, and December gales in Europe; severe storms -- threatening loss potentials; alternative risk transfer and insurance securitization: chances and limitations; and world map of NC 1999: insert.