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Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male 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.MA.P5 • Data available for 183 countries • Latest year: 2019

In , Central African Republic led Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population) at 364.90.

The world median across 183 reporting countries was 97.90.

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
97.90
Mean
118.14
25th percentile
38.70
75th percentile
188.80
Range
9.40 – 364.90

World at a Glance — 2019

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

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 11.90AUBrunei Darussalam: 23.30BNCambodia: 198.10KHChina: 121.50CNFiji: 153.30FJIndonesia: 111.70IDJapan: 15.80JPKiribati: 319.40KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 270.60KPKorea, Rep.: 25.80KRLao PDR: 226.30LAMalaysia: 89.50MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 301.60FMMongolia: 283.90MNMyanmar: 224.20MMNew Zealand: 14.70NZPapua New Guinea: 212.50PGPhilippines: 250.80PHSamoa: 155.40WSSingapore: 30.50SGSolomon Islands: 324.70SBThailand: 59.90THTimor-Leste: 200.80TLTonga: 70.00TOVanuatu: 301.80VUViet Nam: 147.50VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 89.30ALArmenia: 98.30AMAustria: 21.90ATAzerbaijan: 148.00AZBelarus: 104.30BYBelgium: 19.40BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 135.90BABulgaria: 81.30BGCroatia: 40.80HRCyprus: 21.70CYCzechia: 41.50CZDenmark: 15.70DKEstonia: 18.90EEFinland: 10.40FIFrance: 13.40FRGeorgia: 130.10GEGermany: 21.10DEGreece: 29.50GRHungary: 55.00HUIceland: 10.00ISIreland: 15.70IEItaly: 19.20ITKazakhstan: 110.40KZKyrgyz Republic: 160.70KGLatvia: 56.50LVLithuania: 52.80LTLuxembourg: 15.80LUMoldova: 87.30MDMontenegro: 144.20MENetherlands: 15.50NLNorth Macedonia: 114.90MKNorway: 9.40NOPoland: 53.90PLPortugal: 13.20PTRomania: 87.30RORussian Federation: 93.40RUSerbia: 88.00RSSlovak Republic: 43.80SKSlovenia: 22.50SISpain: 13.90ESSweden: 9.80SESwitzerland: 12.80CHTajikistan: 232.20TJTurkiye: 55.10TRTurkmenistan: 105.70TMUkraine: 109.20UAUnited Kingdom: 16.80GBUzbekistan: 179.40UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 21.20AGArgentina: 38.70ARBahamas, The: 13.40BSBarbados: 21.20BBBelize: 48.00BZBolivia: 80.20BOBrazil: 35.80BRChile: 23.10CLColombia: 36.20COCosta Rica: 22.10CRCuba: 49.50CUDominican Republic: 47.70DOEcuador: 32.90ECEl Salvador: 50.50SVGrenada: 53.10GDGuatemala: 101.60GTGuyana: 109.50GYHaiti: 199.50HTHonduras: 116.40HNJamaica: 39.60JMMexico: 53.60MXNicaragua: 97.90NIPanama: 32.70PAParaguay: 68.90PYPeru: 39.90PESt. Lucia: 34.50LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 36.40VCSuriname: 65.40SRTrinidad and Tobago: 26.20TTUruguay: 22.80UYVenezuela, RB: 47.30VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 265.20AFAlgeria: 54.70DZBahrain: 74.00BHDjibouti: 199.40DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 125.50EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 64.20IRIraq: 107.20IQIsrael: 19.90ILJordan: 42.50JOKuwait: 59.40KWLebanon: 76.70LBLibya: 59.20LYMalta: 26.00MTMorocco: 73.50MAOman: 113.20OMPakistan: 225.10PKQatar: 73.20QASaudi Arabia: 98.30SASyrian Arab Republic: 100.70SYTunisia: 68.50TNUnited Arab Emirates: 78.80AEYemen, Rep.: 208.90YENorth AmericaCanada: 10.10CAUnited States: 17.50USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 156.90BDBhutan: 97.70BTIndia: 159.70INMaldives: 37.00MVNepal: 204.30NPSri Lanka: 119.20LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 168.00AOBenin: 227.50BJBotswana: 176.20BWBurkina Faso: 248.60BFBurundi: 235.80BICabo Verde: 124.90CVCameroon: 240.80CMCentral African Republic: 364.90CFChad: 251.00TDComoros: 174.80KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 233.10CDCongo, Rep.: 169.10CGCote d'Ivoire: 222.10CIEquatorial Guinea: 169.60GQEritrea: 288.50EREswatini: 243.50SZEthiopia: 160.10ETGabon: 97.70GAGambia, The: 240.70GMGhana: 231.50GHGuinea: 263.90GNGuinea-Bissau: 276.90GWKenya: 154.90KELesotho: 351.90LSLiberia: 146.00LRMadagascar: 225.00MGMalawi: 197.90MWMali: 168.20MLMauritania: 121.70MRMauritius: 43.70MUMozambique: 308.10MZNamibia: 192.40NANiger: 225.70NENigeria: 167.20NGRwanda: 188.80RWSao Tome and Principe: 236.70STSenegal: 154.10SNSeychelles: 55.70SCSierra Leone: 243.40SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 291.00SOSouth Africa: 92.00ZASouth Sudan: 154.20SSSudan: 156.10SDTanzania: 146.80TZTogo: 271.90TGUganda: 201.10UGZambia: 217.90ZMZimbabwe: 225.10ZW

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Highest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population)
1 Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa 364.90
2 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 351.90
3 Solomon Islands East Asia & Pacific 324.70
4 Kiribati East Asia & Pacific 319.40
5 Mozambique Sub-Saharan Africa 308.10
6 Vanuatu East Asia & Pacific 301.80
7 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. East Asia & Pacific 301.60
8 Somalia, Fed. Rep. Sub-Saharan Africa 291.00
9 Eritrea Sub-Saharan Africa 288.50
10 Mongolia East Asia & Pacific 283.90

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By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 57 34.97
Upper middle income 50 88.49
Lower middle income 49 188.43
Low income 25 230.49
Not classified 2 103.70

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 159.44
Europe & Central Asia 48 63.46
Latin America & Caribbean 31 53.74
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 22 100.64
North America 2 13.80
South Asia 6 129.13
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 203.06

Lowest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population)
1 Norway 9.40
2 Sweden 9.80
3 Iceland 10.00
4 Canada 10.10
5 Finland 10.40
6 Australia 11.90
7 Switzerland 12.80
8 Portugal 13.20
9 France 13.40
10 Bahamas, The 13.40
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.STA.AIRP.MA.P5), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2019.