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Only 7 countries in the world have acceptable air quality

2024-03-19 11:50:43Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

Only 7 countries in the world have acceptable air quality

Only seven countries are meeting the international air quality standard, with deadly pollution worsening due to a rebound in economic activity and the toxic impact of wildfire smoke.

Of the 134 countries and regions surveyed in the report, only seven: Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, Mauritius and New Zealand, are meeting a World Health Organization guideline limit for fine airborne particles emitted by vehicles, trucks and industrial processes.

The vast majority of countries are not meeting this standard for PM2.5, a microscopic speck of soot smaller than the width of a human hair that when inhaled can cause a host of health problems and deaths, risking serious consequences for humans. This is confirmed by the report of IQAir, a Swiss air quality organization that receives data from more than 30,000 monitoring stations worldwide.

While the world's air is generally much cleaner than it was for most of the last century, there are still places where pollution levels are particularly dangerous. The most polluted country, Pakistan, has PM2.5 levels more than 14 times the WHO standard, with India, Tajikistan and Burkina Faso following.

But even in rich and rapidly developing countries, progress in reducing air pollution is under threat. Canada, long considered the country with the cleanest air in the Western world, took a turn for the worse last year as record fires ravaged the country, sending toxic toxins across the country and into the US.

Meanwhile, in China, improvements in air quality were complicated last year by a rebound in economic activity in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the report revealing a 6.5% increase in PM2.5 levels.

Air pollution kills an estimated 7 million people a year worldwide, more than AIDS and malaria combined, and the burden is felt most acutely in developing countries that rely on particularly polluting fuels for heating, lighting and indoor cooking. closed.


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