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How many people are killed by heat each year?

humans · Homo sapiens
killed by heat
490,000
a year
0.016
a second
1,342
a day
of them, from the warming we caused
180,000
a year
5.70e-3
a second
493
a day

method Zhao et al. 2021 (heat deaths ~490k); Vicedo-Cabrera et al. 2021 for the anthropogenic share (~37%).

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