Posted on Jul 13, 2023
Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,600 people last summer, a study estimates
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Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,000 people — most of them women — last summer, according to an estimate published in the journal Nature on Monday.
The summer of 2022 was the continent's hottest on record. Officials tallied thousands of "excess deaths" during that period, and this study specifically analyzes how many were a result of the heat.
Researchers analyzed data from the Eurostat mortality database for 35 countries to estimate that 61,672 people died from heat-related illness between May 30 and September 4. Italy, Spain and Germany had the highest number of heat-attributable deaths overall.
Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,000 people — most of them women — last summer, according to an estimate published in the journal Nature on Monday.
The summer of 2022 was the continent's hottest on record. Officials tallied thousands of "excess deaths" during that period, and this study specifically analyzes how many were a result of the heat.
Researchers analyzed data from the Eurostat mortality database for 35 countries to estimate that 61,672 people died from heat-related illness between May 30 and September 4. Italy, Spain and Germany had the highest number of heat-attributable deaths overall.
Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,600 people last summer, a study estimates
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This could be mitigated, but less than 10% of European homes had air conditioning as of 2016.
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Maj Robert Thornton
We didn’t have it in the UK when I was there for 4 years. And yes, it does get warm in the summer months.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."To make their estimates, researchers obtained temperature and mortality data for the period 2015 to 2022 for 823 regions in 35 European countries to estimate heat-related mortality for each region and week of the summer period. The countries with the highest number of heat-related deaths over the entire summer were Italy (18,010 deaths), Spain (11,324) and Germany (8,173). Previously, the highest heat-related deaths in Europe happened during the summer of 2003 during a major heatwave. Over 70,000 excess deaths were recorded that summer."...
..."To make their estimates, researchers obtained temperature and mortality data for the period 2015 to 2022 for 823 regions in 35 European countries to estimate heat-related mortality for each region and week of the summer period. The countries with the highest number of heat-related deaths over the entire summer were Italy (18,010 deaths), Spain (11,324) and Germany (8,173). Previously, the highest heat-related deaths in Europe happened during the summer of 2003 during a major heatwave. Over 70,000 excess deaths were recorded that summer."...
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