Mapping Global Air Pollution

Air pollution causes 1 inwards viii deaths worldwide. To assist struggle this invisible killer the World Health Organization has launched the BreatheLife campaign. The drive advocates telephone substitution changes that governments around the globe tin own got to trim back sources of climate-harmful air pollutants.

The World Health Organization's Global Ambient Air Pollution map shows the levels of pollution across the globe. The map displays the average annual atmospheric particulate affair levels throughout most 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 most effects those living inwards depression together with pump 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 survive higher inwards depression together with middle-income cities together with inwards the poorer neighborhoods of high-income cities.