Abstract: A study is presented on the trend of temporal variation in landslide activity for the last decades in a context of global change, with an intensification of human activity and a changing climate. Different existing databases are reviewed and the limitations to provide sound information on the temporal trends in landslides occurrence are explored and discussed. We also analyze data from the EM-DAT database on disasters in the 1960-2020 time window, applying two different procedures: correction of frequencies of disasters using a magnitude (fatalities) and application of a nonparametric regression technique (the kernel regression) to analyze the ratio between landslide disasters and disasters of other types. Both methods show an increase in the number of disasters in the last 60 years, with a stabilization or possible reduction in the last 2-3 decades. Landslide disasters are growing relatively more than seismic disasters, which may be related to the manifestation of global change on the Earth's surface. Similarly, since the 1990s, purely climatic disasters have been growing relatively more than landslide disasters.

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