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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]

From: Heatwaves: does global research reflect the growing threat in the light of climate change?

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