Based on the global Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), using Mann-Kendall trend test method and Pettitt, Buishand and SNHT abrupt change test methods, this paper analyzed the trend and abrupt change characteristics of global and Chinese meteorological and hydrological disasters from 1990 to 2019.Results show that:1) The frequencies of global flood disasters and extreme temperature disasters increase significantly in recent 30 years.Global annual death toll caused by flood disasters shows a significant decreasing trend, while global annual economic loss caused by storm disasters shows a significant increasing trend.2) The annual frequencies of global extreme temperature disasters and flood disasters change abruptly in 1999.Since 2000, the average frequency of extreme temperature disasters and flood disasters is about twice that of the first 10 years (1990-1999).3) In the past 30 years, the frequency of flood disasters in China has changed from less to more around 1999, but the annual death toll displays an opposite transition around 1999.Compared with the world, the annual death toll caused by storm disasters and flood disasters in China has a more significant decreasing trend in recent 30 years.Similar to the world, the annual economic loss caused by storm disasters in China shows a long-term increasing trend, but the increasing trend is more significant.The abrupt change of economic loss caused by storm disasters in China occurs in 2012.