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Shows 1993-2019 total fire statistics from 27-57 countries, collectively representing the Earth's 0.9-3.8 billion inhabitants, depending on the year of reporting. In these countries, 2.5-4.5 million fires and 17-62 thousand fire deaths were reported to fire services, depending on the year. Average call, fire and civilian fire death rates in 2015-2019 relative to population are presented in World Fire Statistics World Fire Statistics show that in some countries where the fire service provides medical aid, medical aid responses tend to dominate total emergency responses for the country. Eight countries show medical assistance calls as more than half of all requests – Mongolia, Singapore, Jordan, France, Slovenia, Japan, Irland and the USA. Some of these eight countries were at the top of call rates relative to the population. In contrast – Slovakia shows medical aid calls as less than 1 % of total calls. It is likely that in the six countries where medical aid calls are more than zero but less than half of all calls, the medical aid service is offered by only a fraction of the countries fire service.