France: more than 5,000 heat-related deaths during summer 2023. This estimate - which stands at precisely 5,167 deaths - concerns the entire summer of 2023 and not only the four heatwave episodes.
Over these periods alone, around 1,500 deaths are attributed to heat, or one in ten. This summer remains, despite long periods of gloomy weather, the fourth hottest ever observed in France - the first measurements dating back to 1900 - in a context marked by a global acceleration of heatwaves.