diff --git a/etl/steps/data/garden/emdat/2024-04-11/natural_disasters.meta.yml b/etl/steps/data/garden/emdat/2024-04-11/natural_disasters.meta.yml
index d0a8a659347..e84489bc405 100644
--- a/etl/steps/data/garden/emdat/2024-04-11/natural_disasters.meta.yml
+++ b/etl/steps/data/garden/emdat/2024-04-11/natural_disasters.meta.yml
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ tables:
         title: Disasters
         unit: 'events'
         description_short: |-
-          Number of reported natural disaster events in any given year. Note that the historical increase largely reflects improvements in data reporting, and should not be used to assess the total number of events.
+          Number of reported natural disasters in any given year. Note that the historical increase largely reflects improvements in data reporting, and should not be used to assess the total number of events.
         description_key:
           - *description-key-common
       population: