The gap, in one comparison
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0 heat-related deaths officially recorded — Temperatures reached 50°C across Punjab (population ~120 million); fewer than 5% of all deaths in Pakistan are registered in any way.
Amnesty International, "Uncounted: Invisible deaths of older people and children during climate disasters in Pakistan," May 2025.
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community-reported heat incidents captured by Chhaon — right now, across 11 zones of Lahore.
7 real via WhatsApp · 14 demo (seeded for reliability during judging)
Official-vs-Reported Gap
Updates automatically — last refreshed just nowThere is no live official API for heat-mortality data. The two panels below are deliberately not a same-period comparison: the left panel is what Chhaon is capturing live right now; the right panel is documented historical context, manually curated and cited, showing why this gap is real and worth tracking.
Live community-reported signal
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report(s) across 11 zone(s)
7 real (via WhatsApp) · 14 demo (seeded for reliability during judging)
- other 1
- death 3
- heat exhaustion 12
- heatstroke 5
Documented official-side context
Manually curated, updated periodically — not a live feed.
2022 heatwave, Punjab province
0 heat-related deaths officially recorded
Temperatures reached 50°C across Punjab (population ~120 million); fewer than 5% of all deaths in Pakistan are registered in any way.
Amnesty International, "Uncounted: Invisible deaths of older people and children during climate disasters in Pakistan," May 2025.
2024 heatwave, Karachi
427 deaths officially attributed
Amnesty's investigation found over 95% of fatalities during that same crisis were catalogued under other diagnoses.
Amnesty International 2025 report, as reported by Inside Climate News, June 2025.
2024 heatwave, national (concentrated in Sindh)
568+ recorded deaths, 5,300+ hospital admissions
Some tallies report 7,900+ admissions. Figures are themselves believed to understate the true toll.
2024 Pakistan heat wave event reporting (AP/BBC-sourced aggregation).
Late May 2024, single 24-hour window, Lahore
72 heatstroke admissions
Across five named Lahore public hospitals (Services, General, Mayo, Jinnah, Sir Ganga Ram) — a real, sourced number, but a one-day snapshot that vanished from public view the next day.
Dawn, "Dozens in hospital with heatstroke as country sizzles," 29 May 2024.
This is a community-reported signal, not a verified medical or legal record. The documented figures above establish that official heat-mortality data is known to undercount — they are historical citations, not a live count for the same window as the reports on the left. ← Back to the map