Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years.

Finally, for both the number of persons affected and monetary losses adjusted for inflation, a positive trend is observed over all periods of record.

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In contrast, the number of fatalities is available for almost all flood events in the database and a negative trend of at least 1% per year is observed, even though it is only statistically significant for the period between 1950 and 2016 (see Methods section for statistical significance testing procedure).

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Moreover, the normalized monetary value of losses after gap-filling no longer shows a significant trend for the whole period, and losses normalized by wealth increase by only 0.2% per year, while normalized by GDP decline by 0.1% per year.

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