Thursday, September 29, 2016

Map Shows How Polluted Your Country Is....Reveals the Level of Bad Air You Breath -WHO

According to World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday,
Nine out of ten people globally are breathing poor quality air.

In a staggering report, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for killing more than six million people worldwide, every year.

New data in a report from the UN's global health body 'is enough to make all of us extremely concerned,' Maria Neira, the head of the WHO's department of public health and environment, told reporters.

WHO released an interactive map showing the exposure to pollutants known as PM2.5 for all countries.


Poorer countries have much dirtier air than the developed world, according to the report, but pollution 'affects practically all countries in the world and all parts of society', Mrs Neira said in a statement.

It found that '92 per cent of the world's population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits'. 

The data focuses on dangerous particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres, or PM2.5.


PM2.5 includes toxins like sulfate and black carbon, which can penetrate deep into the lungs or cardiovascular system.

'Air pollution continues [to] take a toll on the health of the most vulnerable populations – women, children and the older adults,' WHO's Assistant Director General Flavia Bustreo said in a statement

Using a different data set, the WHO reported in May that 80 percent of the world's city dwellers breathe poor quality air, a figure that rose to 98 percent in poorer countries.

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