Dataset for "Demographic yearbooks as a source of weather-related fatalities: the Czech Republic, 1919–2022"

This deposit contains three .xlsx files.

The file „01_fatalities_1919-2022“ contains annual numbers of fatalities (males, females and sum) for individual categories of external death causes attributed to weather and natural extremes, excerpted from demographic yearbooks for the Czech Republic for the period 1919–2022.

The file „02_age_categories_1931-2022“ contains eight sheets with annual numbers of weather-related fatalities in the Czech Republic in the period 1931–2022 for eight age categories and for males and females separately. Sheets represent individual categories of death causes – Cold, Heat, Lightning, Natural hazards, Fall on ice or snow, Air pressure. Heat and Natural hazards are divided into two sheets – one with summarized numbers and one with numbers for individual sub-categories.

The file „03_clima_factors“ contains mean temperature of January–February (Brázdil et al., 2012, extended) and mean annual number of days with a thunderstorm in the Czech Republic for the period 1919–2022 and mean temperature of winter season (DJF) in the Czech Republic for the period 1986/1987–2021/2022 (Brázdil et al., 2012, extended).