Abstract: Based on natural disaster data from 1900 to 2018 in the Global Emergency Disaster Database EM-DAT (EM-DAT), the trend test methods and space statistical methods were used to explore the temporal and spatial features and correlation of global natural disasters. The results show that: (1) Floods, droughts and storms are the most harmful. Floods occur most frequently, droughts cause the most deaths, and storms cause the most economic losses; (2) The frequency of disasters increased first and then decreased slightly, showing an overall upward trend; the number of deaths due to disasters decreased significantly after 1932,  showing a downward trend; economic losses from disasters continued to increase, showing an overall upward trend; (3) The disaster frequency pattern shows a tendency to expand in the north-south direction and shrink in the east-west direction, and has the trend moving to the southeast; The number of disaster deaths first showed a “northwest-southeast” distribution pattern, and then transformed into a “southwest-northeast” pattern, and this pattern continued to weaken until finally it reappeared the “northwest-southeast” pattern; The average center of disaster economic loss has a greater distance in the east-west direction than in the north-south direction, and has the trend moving to the northwest; (4) Floods, storms, earthquakes, epidemics, and landslides are significantly positively correlated with all disasters, with correlation coefficients above 0.57. Among them, the correlation coefficient between earthquakes and storms is the highest (0.906).