Table 1.

Mann-Kendall trend test with the Sen-slope of natural disaster occurrence and the resulting deaths and damages in China, 1985–2014.

Disasters	Frequency			Life loss						Damages
				Deaths			Mortality			CPIAD			TD/GDP
	tau	p	Sen	tau	p	Sen	tau	p	Sen *	tau	p	Sen **	tau	p	Sen ***
Integrated	0.594	<0.001	0.57	−0.237	0.068	−32.12	−0.313	0.017	0.03	0.039	0.775	133.98	−0.338	0.009	−0.27
Floods	0.507	<0.001	0.30	−0.154	0.239	−17.00	−0.206	0.126	−0.02	−0.025	0.858	−47.21	−0.240	0.066	−0.13
Landslides	0.365	0.009	0.06	0.056	0.681	0.65	0.035	0.802	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
Storms	0.289	0.032	0.14	−0.338	0.009	−11.67	−0.406	0.003	−0.01	0.078	0.556	43.37	−0.160	0.224	−0.05

Note: * the Sen-slope of mortality was calculated in the unit of millionths; ** the Sen-slope of CPIAD (CPI-adjusted damages) was calculated in the unit of million US dollars; *** the Sen-slope of TD/GDP (Total damages/Data of Gross Domestic Product) was calculated in the unit of thousandths; we have not tested the trend of damages from landslides because there are too many zeroes in the time series.