In 1991, at which point Bangladesh had still built only three hundred shelters, it was hit by a much stronger, category 5 hurricane. The death toll was half that of 1970 because the Cyclone Preparedness Program worked. Since 1991, a strong focus on adaptation and the construction of a further thirty-five hundred shelters have seen the death rate cut by more than a hundredfold. In the last three decades of the last century, about fifteen thousand people died in Bangladesh each year because of hurricanes. In the 2010s, thanks to widespread adaptation, the average number is just twelve dead.
