It is not known as there are no accurate records going back that far. The United States keeps the most detailed records, and even then official U.S. records only go back to 1950 and do not accurately record the number of tornadoes until the 1990s. Most countries do not keep detailed records of tornadoes and many tornadoes that touch down are never recorded.
At a guess, based on U.S. statistics from the past couple decades, the worldwide number of tornadoes in the past 100 years is probably in the hundreds of thousands.
In the past 25 years Bloomington-Normal has had 2 tornadoes
Damages in the U.S. from tornadoes in the past 5 years total at least $24 billion with most of the damage occurring in 2011. Worldwide figures are not available.
In the latest five-year period (not counting 2011 as statistics are not finalized) the U.S. experienced 6329 tornadoes.
In the past five years tornadoes have caused about $30 billion in damage in the U.S., most of it in 2011.
In the 10-year period of 2002-2010 at least 1,373 people were killed in the world by tornadoes. 1073 of those deaths were in the U.S. It should be noted that the worldwide death toll is likely higher than this as the data for tornado fatalities outside the U.S. is missing for some years.
too many to count
There have been many over the years. The last one was in April 2016.
Yes, as it was not before, since this last years the Dominican Republic had been afected by some small tornadoes, which are formed in the North of the country. It's due to the climatic changes in the recents years. But are small tornadoes, not as in the USA.
In the past 10 years tornadoes at least 1402 people have been killed by tornadoes, including 1089 in the United States.
Georgia has experienced an estimated 211 tornadoes in the past 5 years (spanning 2007-2011). Data for 2011 is still preliminary.
As of July 2016, tornadoes have killed 1,054 people in the U.S. in the past 10 years. More than half of those deaths occurred in 2011, which was an exceptionally violent year for tornadoes.
No. Most tornadoes last no more than a few minutes.