Figure 1.

(a) Number of flood events for each income level (bar) and number of countries in which a flood event was reported in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) (solid line) from 1960 to 2013. The definition of income level was obtained from the World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups). (b) Reported fatalities (bar), the modelled global exposed population (black line) and modelled global flooded area (blue line). The modelled global exposed population and flooded area show relative changes compared to the average across 1960–2013. (c) Same as (b) but for reported economic loss according to flooding and modelled global exposed GDP. This figure was created using Generic Mapping Tools 4.5.6.