Telling Numbers: Excess deaths due to climate change, projected state by state

The study, ‘Climate Change and Heat-Induced Mortality in India’, was conducted by the Climate Impact Lab in collaboration with the Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago.

This projected death rate is double the current death rate from oral cancer in India, which is the most common cancer in the country. (File)

A new study has projected that 1.5 million more Indians may die per year from extreme heat due to climate change by 2100, and that India’s energy use will more than double in the next 20 years, driven largely by fossil fuels. If emissions continue to be as high as they are at present, India will see a death rate of about 60 per 100,000 by 2100, the study says.