Table 3.
Ranking of Rvuln for countries with at least 20 articles on heatwaves (quotient of the number of articles and the number of people exposed to heatwaves on average from 2010–2018 per 100,000 people, for calculation reasons the denominator was summed with the mean value) [29]
| Country | Articles | Change (avg. 2010-18) |
(Avg + mean)/ 100,000 |
Rvuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | 289 | -5,699,393 | 1.30 | 222.42 |
| Australia | 455 | 957,339 | 7.96 | 57.19 |
| France | 239 | 3,311,564 | 10.31 | 23.18 |
| Canada | 138 | 1,355,027 | 8.35 | 16.52 |
| Switzerland | 94 | 1,077,751 | 8.08 | 11.64 |
| Spain | 172 | 8,617,450 | 15.62 | 11.01 |
| Germany | 200 | 13,178,646 | 20.18 | 9.91 |
| USA | 886 | 84,823,329 | 91.82 | 9.65 |
| Netherlands | 62 | -377,043 | 6.62 | 9.36 |
| Portugal | 63 | -243,176 | 6.76 | 9.33 |
| Belgium | 52 | -441,244 | 6.56 | 7.93 |
| Sweden | 53 | 1,476,880 | 8.48 | 6.25 |
| Denmark | 35 | -60,623 | 6.94 | 5.04 |
| Greece | 55 | 5,280,288 | 12.28 | 4.48 |
| Norway | 25 | 435,897 | 7.43 | 3.36 |
| Italy | 162 | 41,666,070 | 48.66 | 3.33 |
| South Africa | 26 | 1,496,577 | 8.50 | 3.06 |
| Ireland | 20 | -148,962 | 6.85 | 2.92 |
| New Zealand | 23 | 977,445 | 7.98 | 2.88 |
| Czech Republic | 34 | 5,973,167 | 12.97 | 2.62 |
| Finland | 23 | 2,203,416 | 9.20 | 2.50 |
| Austria | 33 | 6,502,812 | 13.50 | 2.44 |
| South Korea | 97 | 35,000,692 | 42.00 | 2.31 |
| Poland | 41 | 17,685,757 | 24.68 | 1.66 |
| Brazil | 48 | 25,043,218 | 32.04 | 1.50 |
| Pakistan | 23 | 9,201,671 | 16.20 | 1.42 |
| China | 389 | 310,076,822 | 317.08 | 1.23 |
| Russia | 77 | 66,011,200 | 73.01 | 1.05 |
| Japan | 58 | 110,389,844 | 117.39 | 0.49 |
| India | 73 | 255,503,719 | 262.50 | 0.28 |