In all regions of Africa except Southern and in the regions of Caribbean, Western Asia, Eastern Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Micronesia, we observe an increasing trend in the number of natural disasters and affected people, whereas in the Melanesia and South America regions we observe a decreasing trend in the number of people affected.
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Effects of natural disaster trends: a case study for expanding the pre-positioning network of CARE International.
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These facts call for the study of longer time periods to detect a possible trend such as an increasing trend of disaster occurrences among different decades.