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More unexpected deaths have been recorded in Spain so far this year than in the whole of 2021
The Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid has estimated that, so far this year, there have been 30,861 more deaths than expected in Spain, and a staggering 3,833 of these have been attributed to the sweltering heatwaves that punished Spain throughout July and August.
What’s most striking is that this number of fatalities is three times the figure registered during the same period last year, when 1,356 people succumbed to the heat. The worst affected month of summer 2022 was July, which claimed the lives of 2,223 people followed by August, with another 1,610 temperature-related deaths.
By region, Spain’s capital was hardest hit, reporting a 224% increase in fatalities between January and September, with 1,301 deaths blamed on the heat. Madrid is followed by the Balearic Islands, with 1,195 deaths (746 in 2021) and Catalonia, with 711 (compared to just 100 last year).
According to the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo), since the start of the year, a total of 5,783 deaths have been attributed to the temperature; this figures exceeds the whole of 2021, when 3,576 people died and shows a staggering difference compared to 2020, when 1,883 fatalities were registered.
Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has recently compiled the data and has officially confirmed that the summer of 2022 was the hottest ever recorded, with some parts of the Valencian Community and Andalucia registering temperatures of 3ºC or even 4ºC warmer than normal.
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