An estimated 63,600 deaths were attributable to air pollution in the United States in 2021. The annual number of deaths attributable to air pollution in the United States has dropped significantly since 1990. The decline in deaths has coincided with improved air quality, with PM2.5 levels in the U.S. falling more than 40 percent since the turn of the century.

China and India saw the largest number of air pollution-related deaths worldwide in 2021, with more than *********** recorded in each. Together, the world's two most populous countries accounted for approximately ** percent of global deaths from diseases linked to air pollution that year. Health effects of air pollution There are a number of health impacts linked to air pollution. These range from milder symptoms like sore throats and irritated eyes, to more serious effects that increase the risk of premature mortality, including strokes, heart disease, and lung cancer. Where is air pollution highest? In 2024, the world's most polluted countries based on PM2.5 concentrations were Chad, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, with average levels in each country more than ** times above World Health Organization (WHO) recommended guidelines. Although India ranked fifth that year, it was still home to ** of the ** most polluted cities in the world in 2024.

There were approximately 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021 attributable to air pollution, representing an increase of 10 percent compared with 1990. Approximately 38 percent of these deaths were linked to household air pollution from burning solid fuels for cooking, heating, or other domestic tasks.

United States US: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data was reported at 17.000 NA in 2016. United States US: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 17.000 NA from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. United States US: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

Series Name: Crude death rate attributed to household air pollution (deaths per 100 000 population)Series Code: SH_HAP_MORTRelease Version: 2021.Q2.G.03 This dataset is part of the Global SDG Indicator Database compiled through the UN System in preparation for the Secretary-General's annual report on Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.Indicator 3.9.1: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollutionTarget 3.9: By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contaminationGoal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesFor more information on the compilation methodology of this dataset, see https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/

OBJECTIVES To estimate all-cause and cause-specific deaths attributable to fossil fuel-related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy sources. METHODS An updated atmospheric composition model, a newly developed relative risk model and recent satellite-based data were used to determine exposure to ambient air pollution, estimate all-cause and disease-specific mortality, and attribute them to emission categories. DATA SOURCES Data of the Global Burden of Disease 2019, NASA satellite-based fine particulate matter and population data, and atmospheric chemistry, aerosol and relative risk modelling for 2019.

France FR: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data was reported at 9.700 Ratio in 2016. France FR: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data is updated yearly, averaging 9.700 Ratio from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. France FR: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.World Bank: Health Statistics. Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

The global number of all cause excess deaths due to outdoor fine particulate and ozone air pollution is estimated at 8.34 million per year. Approximately 62 percent of these deaths are attributable to ambient air pollution from fossil fuel use. There are numerous causes of death linked to PM2.5 exposure, such as stroke, ischemic heart disease, and lung cancer.

Nigeria NG: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data was reported at 301.000 NA in 2016. Nigeria NG: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 301.000 NA from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. Nigeria NG: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Nigeria – Table NG.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

We conducted a systematic review/meta-analysis for epidemiologic evidence of the association between long-term criteria air pollution (nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), coarse particulate matter (PM10), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO)) exposure and all-cause, respiratory, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) infant mortality. This dataset is associated with the following publications: Wilkie, A., A. Krajewski, F. Njie, K. Park, S. Zelasky, K. Rappazzo, and T. Luben. Long-term exposure to criteria air pollutants and infant mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 267: 114587, (2025). Luben, T., A. Wilkie, A. Krajewski, F. Njie, K. Park, S. Zelasky, and K. Rappazzo. Systematic Review of Short-term Air Pollution Exposure and Infant Mortality. Presented at International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) - North American Chapter, Corvallis, OR, USA, 06/19/2023 - 06/22/2023.

North Korea had the world's highest death rate from air pollution in 2021, at 279 per 100,000 inhabitants. This was roughly three times higher than the global average, and more than 33 times higher than the death rate in Finland. High-income countries typically have lower deaths rates from air pollution than those in developing regions. This is especially the case when looking at death rates among children from air pollution.

This dataset shows the death rate attributed to air pollution caused by particulate matter in Cambodia, with the number of death, percentage, and the mortality rate per 100,000 population associated with death due to air pollution by ambient particulate matter, household, and ozone air pollution.

This dataset show the mortality estimates that can be attributed to air pollution, broken down by Local Authority. The data contains, Population(25+), Deaths (25+), Mean Anthropogenic PM, Attributable deaths, Attributable deaths as a fraction, Associated life-years lost. The data was sourced from Public Health England (http://www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1317141074607) and was subsequently converted to a more usable format so that it could be combined with Local Authority boundary data provided by the Ordnance Survey under their OpenData agreement. The original data was in pdf format. The zip contains an xls document which should corresdond to the main data tables. Northern Ireland is not included in the shapefile, but is available in the download as a separate xls should you require it. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2014-04-16 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-22.

This map shows the age-standardized mortality rate attributed to air pollution by countries. The rate is shown as deaths per 100,000 people. The global average is 95 deaths per 100,000 people. Any areas in the map above this rate are shown in red. 2016 figures for pollution-caused mortality rate are offered by the World Health Organization (WHO). Values are offered as a mean, upper value, lower value, and also offered as age standardized. Values are for deaths caused by all possible air pollution related diseases, for both sexes, and all age groups. For more information visit this page, and here for methodology. According to WHO, the world average was 95 deaths per 100,000 people.PM 2.5 is fine particulate matter that is 2.5 microns or less in diameter. These particles can cause the air to be hazy, and can get into human lungs and the bloodstream causing major health concerns. To learn more about PM 2.5 and its global/human impacts, visit this World Health Organization page about ambient air pollution.The PM 2.5 data in this map is aggregated from NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) gridded data into country boundaries, administrative 1 boundaries, and 50 km hex bins. The unit of measurement for PM 2.5 concentrations is micrograms per cubic meter. For full metadata and methodology documentation about the layer used in this map, visit this Living Atlas layer. For metadata and methodology about the data used to generate the layer, visit the NASA SEDAC gridded PM 2.5 documentation page or PDF.To learn the techniques used in the analysis that generated this layer, visit the Learn ArcGIS lesson Investigate Pollution Patterns with Space-Time Analysis by Esri's Kevin Bulter and Lynne Buie. Citations:van Donkelaar, A., R. V. Martin, M. Brauer, N. C. Hsu, R. A. Kahn, R. C. Levy, A. Lyapustin, A. M. Sayer, and D. M. Winker. 2018. Global Annual PM2.5 Grids from MODIS, MISR and SeaWiFS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) with GWR, 1998-2016. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZK5DQS. Accessed 1 April 2020van Donkelaar, A., R. V. Martin, M. Brauer, N. C. Hsu, R. A. Kahn, R. C. Levy, A. Lyapustin, A. M. Sayer, and D. M. Winker. 2016. Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter Using a Combined Geophysical-Statistical Method with Information from Satellites. Environmental Science & Technology 50 (7): 3762-3772. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b05833.

Trinidad and Tobago TT: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data was reported at 38.600 Ratio in 2016. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data is updated yearly, averaging 38.600 Ratio from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: per 100,000 Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.World Bank: Health Statistics. Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

Germany DE: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Female data was reported at 12.000 NA in 2016. Germany DE: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 12.000 NA from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. Germany DE: Mortality Rate Attributed to Household and Ambient Air Pollution: Age-standardized: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

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This dataset includes results and supplementary data of the publication titled “Premature mortality related to United States cross-state air pollution”, which presents the exchange of air pollution attributable early death impacts between the contiguous US states for 7 emissions sectors and 3 years (2005, 2011, and 2018). State-level source-receptor matrices are included for all years and species/sector combinations, in addition to the source-level definitions of each emission sector used

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is among leading causes of death globally. Exposure to outdoor pollution is an important cause for increased mortality and morbidity. This study presents a systemic review regarding the impact of outdoor pollution on COPD mortality in South Asia and China.

Methods: A systematic search was conducted from 1990 to June 30^th 2020 in English electronic databases: PubMed, Google Scholar and CDSR (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The following terms were used: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease OR COPD OR Chronic Bronchitis OR Emphysema OR COPD Deaths OR Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease OR Airflow Obstruction OR Chronic Airflow Obstruction OR Airflow Obstruction, Chronic OR Bronchitis, Chronic AND Mortality OR Death OR Deceased AND Outdoor pollution, ambient pollution was conducted.

Results: Out of 1899 papers screened only 17 were found eligible to be included. Subjects with COPD exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution had a 49% higher risk of death as compared to COPD subjects exposed to lower levels of outdoor air pollution. When taking common air pollutants individually into consideration, PM10 had an odds ratio (OR) of 1.99 respectively at CI 95%, whereas SO2 had OR of 1.8 at 95% CI, and NO2 had an OR of 1.23 OR at 95% CI. These values suggest that there is an effect of outdoor pollution on COPD but not to a significant level.

Conclusion: Despite heterogeneity across selected studies, individuals exposed to outdoor pollutants were found to be at risk of COPD mortality. Though it appears to have risk, COPD mortality was not significantly associated with outdoor pollutants. Controlling air pollution can substantially decrease the risk of COPD in South Asia and China. Further researches including more prospective and longitudinal studies are urgently needed in COPD sub-groups.