2023-07-07 13:32:35
According to a study by Public Health France, the number of drownings was lower in June 2023 than in June 2021, the post-pandemic period. However, the proportion of deaths by drowning is higher this year.
A danger that does not diminish. Drownings were fewer, but more frequently fatal in June 2023, compared to the same period in 2021, according to a study published this Friday by Public Health France. A phenomenon that recalls the dangers of drowning particularly frequent during the summer and targeting all age groups.
For the period between June 1 and June 28, 233 drownings were recorded, of which 84, or just over a third (36%), were fatal for France and Overseas.
Compared to June 2021, the total number of drownings is down 25%. If the number of drownings followed by death remains stable between June 2021 and June 2023, the proportion of deaths is on the other hand increasing, since it was 26% two years ago, against 36% this year.
The adults first victim
Concerning the accidents that occurred last June, drownings followed by death mainly concern adults in more than 6 out of 10 cases (62%), compared to 5% of drownings affecting children under 6 years old.
The phenomenon is also on the increase. In 2021, the proportion of drownings followed by death among adults was less than one in two people (47%).
Public Health France emphasizes the crucial role of the weather in this type of accident. Drownings were particularly numerous on Sunday June 25, a particularly hot weekend day and therefore favorable for swimming in the majority of the country.
About 1000 deaths per year
For Public Health France, the large number of drownings that occurred in 2021 can be explained by the post-pandemic period.
“The context of the lifting of the restrictive measures deployed for the management of the Covid-19 epidemic associated with climatic conditions favorable to swimming may have explained part of the large number of drownings during (the) period (of the first half of the month of June”, advances the institute of health.
Public Health France recalls that drownings occur in all environments (rivers, bodies of water, public or private swimming pools), but that deaths by drowning are more frequent in private swimming pools for children and at sea for adults. .
On average, about 1000 people die each year in France after accidental drowning. Half of these drownings occur during the summer.
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