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Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population)

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 Bank code: SH.STA.AIRP.FE.P5 • Data available for 183 countries • Latest year: 2019

In , Afghanistan led Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population) at 265.00.

The world median across 183 reporting countries was 66.30.

What this measures: 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).

How "Health & Population" indicators are measured

Health and population indicators come from national vital-registration systems, demographic and health surveys, and modeling by the UN Population Division and WHO. Mortality and morbidity estimates are often modeled rather than directly observed in lower-capacity statistical systems, which means some figures are interpolations between survey years. Life expectancy is a "period" measure based on current age-specific mortality, not a forecast of how long someone born today will actually live.

Distribution — 2019

Reporting
183 countries
Median
66.30
Mean
86.55
25th percentile
24.00
75th percentile
147.70
Range
5.10 – 265.00

World at a Glance — 2019

Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 7.90AUBrunei Darussalam: 15.80BNCambodia: 139.40KHChina: 73.50CNFiji: 88.60FJIndonesia: 82.40IDJapan: 8.40JPKiribati: 191.30KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 176.40KPKorea, Rep.: 13.60KRLao PDR: 169.00LAMalaysia: 63.40MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 208.20FMMongolia: 163.40MNMyanmar: 155.40MMNew Zealand: 10.00NZPapua New Guinea: 167.70PGPhilippines: 166.20PHSamoa: 134.50WSSingapore: 16.80SGSolomon Islands: 238.60SBThailand: 35.50THTimor-Leste: 171.60TLTonga: 36.80TOVanuatu: 216.30VUViet Nam: 71.60VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 94.20ALArmenia: 57.30AMAustria: 13.80ATAzerbaijan: 106.50AZBelarus: 49.20BYBelgium: 11.90BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 95.30BABulgaria: 48.10BGCroatia: 24.00HRCyprus: 10.60CYCzechia: 25.30CZDenmark: 10.40DKEstonia: 8.70EEFinland: 5.10FIFrance: 7.20FRGeorgia: 66.30GEGermany: 9.60DEGreece: 17.20GRHungary: 33.00HUIceland: 6.50ISIreland: 10.10IEItaly: 11.60ITKazakhstan: 65.30KZKyrgyz Republic: 101.90KGLatvia: 29.50LVLithuania: 29.40LTLuxembourg: 9.60LUMoldova: 55.40MDMontenegro: 91.50MENetherlands: 11.10NLNorth Macedonia: 78.70MKNorway: 6.40NOPoland: 30.90PLPortugal: 7.40PTRomania: 52.10RORussian Federation: 49.60RUSerbia: 57.40RSSlovak Republic: 21.40SKSlovenia: 15.20SISpain: 7.00ESSweden: 6.50SESwitzerland: 8.30CHTajikistan: 179.40TJTurkiye: 37.20TRTurkmenistan: 74.30TMUkraine: 59.10UAUnited Kingdom: 10.50GBUzbekistan: 129.70UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 17.60AGArgentina: 23.00ARBahamas, The: 8.00BSBarbados: 16.70BBBelize: 33.80BZBolivia: 74.30BOBrazil: 23.50BRChile: 13.80CLColombia: 27.40COCosta Rica: 13.90CRCuba: 35.10CUDominican Republic: 35.40DOEcuador: 23.90ECEl Salvador: 32.90SVGrenada: 41.90GDGuatemala: 82.30GTGuyana: 82.60GYHaiti: 211.60HTHonduras: 109.20HNJamaica: 32.40JMMexico: 37.20MXNicaragua: 74.30NIPanama: 22.50PAParaguay: 43.10PYPeru: 35.90PESt. Lucia: 21.30LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 32.00VCSuriname: 39.70SRTrinidad and Tobago: 14.40TTUruguay: 11.50UYVenezuela, RB: 30.30VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 265.00AFAlgeria: 45.00DZBahrain: 60.00BHDjibouti: 157.20DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 87.90EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 52.30IRIraq: 75.20IQIsrael: 11.10ILJordan: 34.70JOKuwait: 22.70KWLebanon: 41.50LBLibya: 49.30LYMalta: 16.60MTMorocco: 60.30MAOman: 94.10OMPakistan: 157.50PKQatar: 106.80QASaudi Arabia: 80.40SASyrian Arab Republic: 87.70SYTunisia: 45.40TNUnited Arab Emirates: 50.30AEYemen, Rep.: 166.80YENorth AmericaCanada: 6.30CAUnited States: 11.30USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 130.50BDBhutan: 90.20BTIndia: 119.90INMaldives: 26.30MVNepal: 156.00NPSri Lanka: 70.60LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 121.40AOBenin: 180.50BJBotswana: 115.60BWBurkina Faso: 167.40BFBurundi: 181.00BICabo Verde: 70.70CVCameroon: 178.00CMCentral African Republic: 257.80CFChad: 206.60TDComoros: 155.20KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 188.80CDCongo, Rep.: 169.80CGCote d'Ivoire: 148.20CIEquatorial Guinea: 164.50GQEritrea: 193.40EREswatini: 116.90SZEthiopia: 126.90ETGabon: 61.50GAGambia, The: 201.30GMGhana: 159.90GHGuinea: 220.90GNGuinea-Bissau: 195.90GWKenya: 114.20KELesotho: 242.20LSLiberia: 157.70LRMadagascar: 193.30MGMalawi: 112.90MWMali: 165.90MLMauritania: 133.10MRMauritius: 27.10MUMozambique: 175.20MZNamibia: 109.30NANiger: 202.10NENigeria: 162.90NGRwanda: 147.70RWSao Tome and Principe: 216.60STSenegal: 140.40SNSeychelles: 32.00SCSierra Leone: 235.10SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 188.60SOSouth Africa: 61.70ZASouth Sudan: 117.30SSSudan: 135.40SDTanzania: 113.80TZTogo: 180.90TGUganda: 135.40UGZambia: 141.50ZMZimbabwe: 164.20ZW

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Highest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population)
1 Afghanistan Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 265.00
2 Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa 257.80
3 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 242.20
4 Solomon Islands East Asia & Pacific 238.60
5 Sierra Leone Sub-Saharan Africa 235.10
6 Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa 220.90
7 Sao Tome and Principe Sub-Saharan Africa 216.60
8 Vanuatu East Asia & Pacific 216.30
9 Haiti Latin America & Caribbean 211.60
10 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. East Asia & Pacific 208.20

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By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 57 23.04
Upper middle income 50 60.32
Lower middle income 49 141.15
Low income 25 177.42
Not classified 2 78.60

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 108.55
Europe & Central Asia 48 40.56
Latin America & Caribbean 31 41.98
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 22 80.35
North America 2 8.80
South Asia 6 98.92
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 153.93

Lowest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population)
1 Finland 5.10
2 Canada 6.30
3 Norway 6.40
4 Iceland 6.50
5 Sweden 6.50
6 Spain 7.00
7 France 7.20
8 Portugal 7.40
9 Australia 7.90
10 Bahamas, The 8.00
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.STA.AIRP.FE.P5), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2019.