Table 1 Description of the study areas.

From: Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB

Study area (acronym)

Area (km2)

Area (% of total)

NUTS 2 (number of units)

Population (inhabitants)

Population (% of total)

Population density (inh./km2)

BAL

4,993

0.2%

1

1,188,220

0.3%

238

CAT

32,113

1.5%

1

7,566,431

2.2%

236

CYP

9,256

0.4%

1

875,899

0.3%

95

CZE

78,873

3.7%

8

10,649,800

3.0%

135

SFR

53,194

2.8%

3

8,343,000

2.4%

157

GER

357,661

16.8%

38

83,019,213

23.7%

232

GRE

131,759

6.2%

13

10,724,599

3.1%

81

ISR

22,159

1.0%

N.A.

9,054,100

2.6%

409

ITA

324,764

15.2%

21

60,359,546

17.2%

186

POR

91,909

4.3%

5

9,779,826

2.8%

106

TUR

780,376

36.6%

26

82,003,882

23.4%

105

UK

244,545

11.5%

41

66,647,112

19.0%

273

Total

2,131,602

100.0%

158

350,211,628

100.0%

  1. Notes: Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/, data 2019. For SFR: French Statistical Service, 2021. For ISR: CBS (2020).