Shutterstock April 26, 2021 More people die in winter than summer, but climate change may see this reverse Ivan Charles Hanigan, University of Sydney; Alistair Woodward, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Keith Dear, University of Adelaide Our research looked at deaths in Australia between 1968 and 2018. While more people tend to die in winter than summer, this gap is narrowing – and that’s a worry.