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This list contains the top 500 cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement as documented by the World Health Organization covering the period from 2010 to 2022. The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries.
After India, Pakistan has the most number of cities among the most polluted cities in the world, and we start off with Sahiwal, located in the province of Punjab. There are close to 400,000 people ...
The post The Most (and the Least) Polluted Cities in the World appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... IQ Air spills the beans on the most polluted cities around the globe. The post The Most (and ...
Begusarai, a city of half a million people in northern India’s Bihar state, was the world’s most polluted city last year with an average annual PM2.5 concentration of 118.9 — 23 times the ...
Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.
In an apparent wake-up call to Asia, the world’s 100 most polluted cities in 2020 all happened to be in the continent, according to the latest annual report by air quality tracker IQAir ...
Below is a list of 526 cities sorted by their annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (μg/m 3) in 2022. [1] [2] By default the least polluted cities which have fewest particulates in the air come first. Click on the arrows next to the table's headers to have the most polluted cities ranked first. Please note that constraints exist in this type of ...
Scale reading for fine particulate matter crosses the 1,000 mark in Delhi for the first time this year