Table 2.

Ranking of socio-economic ratios R_POP (number of articles/population in mill.) and R_GDP (number of articles/GDP in 1000 bn US-Dollars), threshold ≥ 20 articles on heatwaves, sorted by R_POP., ppp = purchasing power parity

Country	Articles	Population in mill	GDP 1000 bn PPP	RPOP	RankPOP	RGDP	RankGDP
Australia	455	25.203	1.35	18.05	HI 1	336.43	HI 1
Switzerland	94	8.591	0.61	10.94	HI 2	154.42	HI 4
Portugal	63	10.226	0.37	6.16	HI 3	168.21	HI 2
Denmark	35	5.772	0.35	6.06	HI 4	100.54	HI 6
Sweden	53	10.036	0.57	5.28	HI 5	92.32	HI 7
Greece	55	10.473	0.34	5.25	HI 6	163.45	HI 3
New Zealand	23	4.783	0.22	4.81	HI 7	106.42	HI 5
Norway	25	5.379	0.36	4.65	HI 8	69.95	HI 15
Belgium	52	11.539	0.63	4.51	HI 9	83.01	HI 10
UK	289	67.53	3.26	4.28	HI 10	88.77	HI 8
Finland	23	5.532	0.28	4.16	HI 11	81.18	HI 11
Ireland	20	4.819	0.44	4.15	HI 12	45.87	HI 19
Canada	138	37.411	1.93	3.69	HI 13	71.51	HI 14
Austria	33	8.955	0.52	3.69	HI 14	62.89	HI 16
Spain	172	46.737	1.99	3.68	HI 15	86.55	HI 9
France	239	64.991	3.32	3.68	HI 16	72.09	HI 13
Netherlands	62	17.097	1.03	3.63	HI 17	59.93	HI 18
Czech Republic	34	10.689	0.45	3.18	HI 18	74.85	HI 12
USA	886	328.239	21.37	2.70	HI 19	41.45	HI 22
Italy	162	60.55	2.66	2.68	HI 20	60.79	HI 17
Germany	200	83.517	4.66	2.39	HI 21	42.92	HI 21
South Korea	97	51.225	2.22	1.89	HI 22	43.60	HI 20
Poland	41	37.888	1.30	1.08	HI 23	31.56	HI 23
Russia	77	145.872	4.28	0.53	UMI 1	17.98	UMI 2
Japan	58	126.246	5.46	0.46	HI 24	10.62	HI 24
South Africa	26	58.558	0.76	0.44	UMI 2	34.16	UMI 1
China	389	1433.784	23.46	0.27	UMI 3	16.58	UMI 3
Brazil	48	211.05	3.22	0.23	UMI 4	14.91	UMI 4
Pakistan	23	216.565	1.06	0.11	LMI 1	21.74	LMI 1
India	73	1366.418	9.61	0.05	LMI 2	7.59	LMI 2