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	Air quality and health in cities IHME Institut for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2022) C1 View PDF(13) Download (5) Add to my MEDBOX This report provides an overview of air pollution levels and associated health impacts in cities around the world. Since urban areas are often hotspots for poor air quality, city-level data can help to inform targeted efforts to curb urban air pollution and improve public health. This report draws on data from the Global Burden of Disease project and from peer-reviewed analyses led by Susan Anenberg of the George Washington University Tags: air pollution, cities, urban health, burden of disease, health impact, Source: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default
	Air Pollution Data Explorer Our World in Data (2022) CC Open external link (90) Add to my MEDBOX Explore historical emissions of air pollutants from fuel use globally. Tags: air pollution, data, database, infographics, Source: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/air
	Air quality index annual update Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(31) Download (16) Add to my MEDBOX During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s economy slowed. Yet, the global annual average particulate pollution (PM2.5) was largely unchanged from 2019 levels. At the same time, growing evidence shows air pollution—even when experienced at very low levels—hurts human health. This recently led the World Health Organization (WHO) to revise its guideline for what it considers a safe level of exposure of particulate pollution, bringing most of the world—97.3 percent of the global population—into the unsafe zone. The AQLI finds that particulate air pollution takes 2.2 years off global average life expectancy, or a combined 17 billion life-years, relative to a world that met the WHO guideline. This impact on life expectancy is comparable to that of smoking, more than three times that of alcohol use and unsafe water, six times that of HIV/AIDS, and 89 times that of conflict and terrorism Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index India Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(31) Download (16) Add to my MEDBOX India is the world’s second most polluted country. Air pollution shortens average Indian life expectancy by 5 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) of 5 μg/m3 was met. Some areas of India fare much worse than average, with air pollution shortening lives by almost 10 years in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the most polluted city in the world Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Southeast Asia Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(37) Download (16) Add to my MEDBOX Virtually all (99.9 percent) of Southeast Asia’s 656.1 million people live in areas where particulate pollution exceeds the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m³. Despite the lockdowns of the pandemic, pollution continued to rise in much of Southeast Asia in 2020. This pollution cuts short the life expectancy of the average Southeast Asian person by 1.5 years, relative to what it would be if the WHO guideline was met. That’s a total of 959.8 million person-years lost to pollution in the eleven countries that make up this region. Some countries in the region experience greater impacts from pollution Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Central and West Africa Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(29) Download (15) Add to my MEDBOX In Central and West Africa, regions together comprising 27 countries and 605 million people, the average person is exposed to particulate pollution levels that are more than 4 times the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m³1. If these particulate pollution levels persist, average life expectancy in the regions would be 1.6 years lower, and a total of 971 million person-years would be lost, relative to if air quality met the WHO guideline. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, are the top three most polluted countries in the region Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Bangladesh Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(41) Download (19) Add to my MEDBOX Bangladesh is the world’s most polluted country. Air pollution shortens the average Bangladeshi’s life expectancy by 6.9 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m³ was met. Some areas of Bangladesh fare much worse than average, with air pollution shortening lives by nearly 9 years in Dhaka, the country’s most polluted city Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Pakistan Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(27) Download (15) Add to my MEDBOX Pakistan is the world’s fourth most polluted country. Air pollution shortens the average Pakistani’s life expectancy by 3.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m3 was met.1 Some areas of Pakistan fare much worse than average, with air pollution shortening lives by almost 7 years in the country’s most polluted regions, like Lahore and Peshawar Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Nepal Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(35) Download (20) Add to my MEDBOX Nepal is the world’s third most polluted country. Air pollution shortens average Nepalese life expectancy by 4.1 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m3 was met.1 The highest concentrations of air pollution are observed in Nepal’s southwestern districts, which share their borders with the highly-polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain of India. Here, residents stand to lose nearly 7 years of life expectancy Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten
	Air quality index Nigeria Fact Sheet 2022 Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1 View PDF(38) Download (17) Add to my MEDBOX Air pollution’s impact on life expectancy in Nigeria is greater than that of HIV/AIDS and almost on par with malaria and unsafe water and sanitation, shortening the average Nigerian’s life expectancy by 1.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m3 was met.1 Some areas of Nigeria fare much worse than average, with air pollution shortening lives by almost 4 years on average in parts of Taraba state in Northeastern Nigeria Tags: air quality, pollution, impacts, life expectancy, Source: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-conten

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49 records