Table 3.
Economic loss (in million US dollars, $) due to all-cause deaths associated with cold and heat
| Total attributable deaths | Annual economic loss | Annual economic loss per 100,000 inhabitants | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOLY | Cold | Heat | Cold | Heat | Cold | Heat | |
| Country | |||||||
| Argentina | 85.08 | 61,075 | 8,586 | 472.4 | 66.4 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
| Brazil | 68.31 | 113,528 | 29,170 | 352.5 | 90.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Chile | 94.59 | 23,128 | 2,018 | 198.9 | 17.4 | 2.5 | 0.2 |
| Colombia | 48.52 | 47,826 | 4,465 | 145.0 | 13.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| Costa Rica | 68.30 | 67 | 121 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Ecuador | 39.55 | 4,624 | 6 | 36.6 | 0.05 | 0.8 | 0.01 |
| Guatemala | 23.28 | 1,608 | 72 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.02 |
| Mexico | 63.79 | 122,141 | 11,109 | 458.3 | 41.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 |
| Overseas France | 288.52 | 557 | 521 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Panama | 77.89 | 80 | 142 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| Paraguay | 28.20 | 3,297 | 672 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| Peru | 40.62 | 15,141 | 986 | 87.9 | 5.7 | 0.5 | 0.03 |
| Puerto Rico | 140.17 | 438 | 312 | 7.7 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Uruguay | 110.41 | 14,626 | 1,626 | 323.0 | 35.9 | 18.8 | 2.1 |
| Climatic zonea | |||||||
| Tropical | 32,608 | 17,639 | 134.5 | 69.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
| Arid | 38,812 | 5,220 | 170.8 | 21.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
| Temperate | 336,716 | 37,132 | 1,799.3 | 200.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | |
a
Economic loss calculated from country-specific VOLY for cities in each climatic zone. Three cities with polar climate were not considered.