Madrid (EFE) heat and dehydration than three years earlier.
Specifically, between last spring and summer, when the all-time high temperatures were pulverized, there were 122 fatal heat strokes compared to 47 in 2019, representing an increase of 159%, and 233 cases of dehydration, which they rose 113.7% compared to the 109 of the pre-pandemic year.
In 2021, deaths from both causes were 189 compared to 355 in 2022, which represented an increase of 89%.
This is clear from the Deaths by Cause of Death Statistics, published this Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics which, even with provisional data, confirms the lethality of the month of July last year: deaths increased by 32.8% (10,991 deaths more), and the increase was greater in those over 75 years of age.