Air pollution, 1700 to 2016
Average concentrations of suspended particulate matter, measured in micrograms per cubic meter.
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Charts
- Absolute number of deaths from ambient particulate air pollution
- Air pollutant emissions
- Air pollution deaths from fossil fuels
- Air pollution vs. GDP per capita
- Chronic respiratory diseases death rateWHO Mortality Database, age-standardized
- Death rate attributed to ambient air pollution
- Death rate attributed to household air pollution
- Death rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution
- Death rate from air pollutionBy type, stacked area
- Death rate from air pollution
- Death rate from air pollutionBy type, line chart
- Death rate from ambient particulate air pollutionCrude
- Death rate from outdoor air pollution in 1990 vs. 2021
- Death rate from outdoor air pollution vs. GDP per capita
- Death rate from ozone pollution
- Death rate from ozone pollutionage-standardized
- Death rate from particular matter air pollution vs. PM2.5 concentration
- Deaths from air pollution
- Deaths from air pollution, by age
- Deaths from household and outdoor air pollution
- Deaths from outdoor air pollution
- Deaths from outdoor particulate matter air pollution, by age
- Deaths from outdoor particulate matter air pollution, by region
- Deaths from ozone pollution
- Disease burden from outdoor particulate matter pollution
- Emissions of air pollutants
- Emissions of air pollutantsOECD
- Emissions of air pollutantsUK DEFRA; US EPA
- Emissions of particulate matter
- Exposure to PM2.5 air pollution vs. GDP per capita
- Exposure to particulate matter air pollution
- Global sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emissions by world region
- Number of deaths from air pollution
- Outdoor air pollution death rate
- Outdoor air pollution death rate by age
- Outdoor air pollution deaths in 1990 vs. 2021
- Ozone (O₃) concentration
- Particulate matter exposure in 1990 vs. 2017
- Road miles and NOₓ emissions from transport in the United Kingdom
- Share of deaths attributed to air pollution
- Share of deaths attributed to outdoor air pollution
- Share of population exposed to air pollution above WHO targets
- Share of the population exposed to air pollution levels above WHO guidelines
- Share of the population without access to clean fuels for cooking
- Sources of air pollution in the UK
- emissions of air pollutants