PM2.5 air pollution, population exposed to levels exceeding WHO guideline value

Percent of population exposed to ambient concentrations of PM2.5 that exceed the WHO guideline value is defined as the portion of a country’s population living in places where mean annual concentrations of PM2.5 are greater than 10 micrograms per cubic meter, the guideline value recommended by the World Health Organization as the lower end of the range of concentrations over which adverse health effects due to PM2.5 exposure have been observed.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
194
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

    Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), uri: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2017, publisher: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), date published: 202112

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

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Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan2017100percent
Albania2017100.00percent
Algeria2017100percent
American Samoa2017100percent
Andorra201717.82percent
Angola2017100percent
Antigua and Barbuda2017100percent
Argentina201793.85percent
Armenia2017100percent
Australia201724.89percent

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