Casualties

Heat waves can have serious adverse effects on the human body.
Children under 5 years of age or elderly and people who have hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and mental illness can receive relatively more health damage from heatwaves.
The diseases from heat wave can be heatstroke, heat exhuastion, heat prostration, etc.
Many experts say that the cause of the heat is global warming.
In many countries, therefore, there is a special note about the heat. 'Heatwatch warning' occurs when the maximum daytime temperature is more than 33 degrees Celsius for up to two days.

The United States of America

This map shows that the high temperature from North American heat wave in 2018.
In United States, the temperature at UCLA was 111'F.
The combination of heat wave and dryness fueled wildfires that results losing national budgets and people.
Specifically, Arizona recorded 111'F on July and Colorado was 105'F, which was like a disaster.
In Canada, At least 70 deaths were heat-related in Quebec.

Chicago heat wave:

From July 12 to July 16, 1995, Chicago showed a heat wave. The highest temperature was 40 degrees Celsius. Between July 11 and 27, 465 people died from high temperatures, more than half of them were aged 75 or older.

This graph shows that heat-related deaths from 1986 to 2012.
More than 700 casualties were killed in connection with Chicago heat wave.
Result of Chicago heat wave has shown that the elderly and low-income people are most victim.
The night-time temperature is one of important factors because it is hard to take a rest or recover if the temperature continues high in night as well as the day.

Europe

In 2003, the hottest recorded summer in Europe happened.
In Southern Europe crop shortfall was created by drought and many people were suffered from deadly heat wave.
France was hit especially hard as it had 14,802 deaths(most elderly). The Maximum temperature was about 41.1 in Auxerre
Unbelievably, the death toll was estimated at more than 70,000 people
In Germany, shipping could not navigate the Elbe and Danube(Major rivers in Eupope) from the resulf of low water levels.
In Switzerland, glaciers in the Alps melted that occured avalanches and flash floods.
In a short time, the number of deaths was too high to accommodate the body in the hospital.

South Korea and Japan

This graph shows that casualties was rising from April to July in 2018 Japan.
The casualties rose up to 9,956 in July.
The temperatures climbed above 40 degrees celsius which led almost 10,000 people suffered.
Most of the emergencies happened at home, nearly about 13.5 of the patients suffered heat stroke at work(factories or construction site)
Japan has exceeded 35 degrees Celsius in the Honshu region in particular since July.
This heatwave killed more than 125 people in Japan by July 29. In July 23, Japan's Kamagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, recorded a record high of 41.1 degrees Celsius per day in Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the worst heatwave in history.
On July 14, six people died per day due to the heatwave and 1,535 were transferred to the hospital.
Between 15 and 22 July, 65 people died.
On July 17th, an ambulance was delivered 2,900 times a day.

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In South Korea, 3,384 people died in 1994, the warmest in Korea.
In addition, many livestock were killed in various regions including Gyeonggi, Incheon, Chungnam and Jeonbuk by 2013.
In 2018, 42 people were killed. The temperature reached 39.6 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature in 111 years.
In addition, the number of people with warm illnesses was 4,515. Seoul was the worst at 39.6 degrees Celsius, while Hongcheon had the highest temperature below 41 degrees Celsius.

Other countries

This statistic shows the number of casualties due to heat and cold waves worldwide from 1900 to 2016
Especially in Russia, there were 55,736 people died in June 2010 because of deadly heat wave.
Italy, France, and Spain were suffered by 2003 European heat wave.
In China, heat wave caused estimated economic deficit of 21.2 billion dollars