Cleaner Air = Longer Lives

You tin dismiss role this interactive map to discovery out how many extra years you lot could await to alive if your solid position down met the World Health Organization's recommended prophylactic levels of air quality. The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's Air Quality-Life Index map shows how many life years could hold upwards saved inwards countries about the the world if they met WHO standards for prophylactic levels of airborne particulate affair pollution.

The darker the color on the map together with thence the to a greater extent than years could hold upwards saved. In other words the darkest areas accept the worst records of air pollution. You tin dismiss genuinely thought particulate pollution concentrations on the map past times switching to the 'Pollution' layer.


Air pollution causes i inwards 8 deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization's ain interactive map, Global Ambient Air Pollution, besides shows the levels of pollution across the globe. The map displays the average annual atmospheric particulate affair levels throughout about of the world. The information used is from the WHO Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, which covers 3000 cities inwards 103 dissimilar countries.

The Global Ambient Air Pollution map helps highlight the fact that air pollution about effects those living inwards depression together with midpoint income countries. However 56% of cities inwards high-income countries besides don't encounter the WHO air lineament guidelines. Even inwards high-income countries urban air pollution levels tend to hold upwards higher inwards depression together with middle-income cities together with inwards the poorest neighborhoods of high-income cities.