In 2023, around ** million people worldwide were impacted by flooding, including being injured or losing their homes. This figure has remained relatively stable in recent years, and represents a decrease of roughly ** percent compared to the 30-year peak registered in 1998. During that summer, China suffered from the worst floods in over 44 years, whereas, in the United States, the historical so-called October 1998 Texas Flooding took place.
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