India, Sept. 23 -- A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has estimated that 62,775 heat-related deaths occurred in Europe between June 1 and September 30, 2024.

These mortality figures are 23.6% higher than the approximately 50,800 estimated for the summer of 2023, and 8.1% lower than the nearly 67,900 estimated for the summer of 2022. These results have been published in Nature Medicine.

Italy and Spain recorded highest number of deaths

The study focused on 654 regions in 32 European countries.

The country with the highest number of heat-related deaths was Italy, with more than 19,000 estimated deaths in the summer of 2024.

In the previous summers of 202...