At the regional scale, a negative trend in mortality rate is seen in East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa.
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On the other hand, global loss rates showed a decreasing trend in both J15 and our study for the period 1990–2010.
The annual total number of reported fatalities and the value of reported economic losses from flooding in the EM-DAT show an increasing trend between 1960 and 2013 (1.5% per year for the annual total number of reported fatalities and 6.3% per year for the value of reported economic losses; bars in Fig. 1b,c ).
The loss rate in countries with lower-middle income shows a negative trend, while that in countries with upper-middle income shows a positive trend.