US EditionEurope had over 62,700 heat-related deaths in 2024, report finds
ISGlobal found a 23.6% rise in heat-related deaths in Europe in 2024, with women and people over 75 facing significantly higher mortality rates.
- Europe experienced over 62,700 heat-related deaths in 2024, the highest toll in the past three summers.
- Italy had the most heat deaths last summer with an estimated 19,000, followed by Spain and Germany with over 6,000 each.
- Joan Ballester Claramunt, the study's senior author, highlighted the need to strengthen adaptation strategies and implement heat-health early warning systems.
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More than 2,500 people died in Serbia due to heat during the summer of last year, while in Europe almost 63,000 deaths were linked to record high temperatures, according to estimates by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
The heat waves that hit Europe during the summer of 2024 were responsible for the deaths of more than sixty thousand people, according to the latest report of the study led by ISGlobal whose results have been recently presented. Mortality figures are 23.6% higher than those of the summer of 2023 (estimated 50,800 deaths) and 8.1% lower than those of the summer of 2022 (estimated 67,900) and Italy and Spain are the countries most affected by them…
European heat-related deaths exceed 62,000 in 2024, highlighting regional vulnerability
The year 2024 broke several temperature records: it was the hottest ever recorded, and its summer was also the warmest to date. A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has estimated that 62,775 heat-related deaths occurred in Europe between 1 June and 30 September of that year.
More than 62,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes last year
More than 62,700 people died in Europe from heat-related causes last year, according to research published in Nature Medicine yesterday, with women and the elderly representing the largest part of the death toll.
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