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🇪🇸 Spain · adaptation failure

In Spain, the heat is not the scandal.
The refusal to adapt is.

6,743 people died of heat in Spain in summer 2024 (ISGlobal). About 41% of homes here have air conditioning, against ~90% in the United States.

Heat deaths in Spain, summer 2026
1,521
Public data · ISGlobal, Nature Medicine 2025
Economic loss in Spain, summer 2026
€1,469,801,111
Public data · European Parliament, Allianz Trade
In the 0 seconds you have been on this tab, in Spain:
0.00
heat deaths
€0
economic output lost
None of it was inevitable.

Summer 2026, live. Projected this summer: ~9,138. 2025 9,221 (modeled) · 2024 6,743 (ISGlobal).

The counterfactual → How we count
Today in Madrid: ·
6,743
heat deaths, summer 2024 (ISGlobal)
41%
of homes with air conditioning (vs ~90% US)
$120B
projected GDP loss 2026 to 2030 (Allianz Trade)

The cold fix Spain won't buy.

Household air-conditioning adoption · IEA / WRI. The fix costs about €300.

Built on public data: population, deaths, GDP, AC adoption and the minimum-mortality temperature come from Eurostat, ISGlobal, IEA/ISTAT/ADEME and the MCC network. The heat-exposed labour share and per-country calibration are modeled assumptions. Full method on the methodology page.
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