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Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized (per 100,000 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.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 (per 100,000 population) at 305.10.

The world median across 183 reporting countries was 83.40.

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
83.40
Mean
100.77
25th percentile
31.30
75th percentile
165.20
Range
7.40 – 305.10

World at a Glance — 2019

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

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 9.80AUBrunei Darussalam: 19.60BNCambodia: 163.30KHChina: 95.30CNFiji: 118.70FJIndonesia: 96.10IDJapan: 11.80JPKiribati: 246.60KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 212.80KPKorea, Rep.: 18.90KRLao PDR: 195.30LAMalaysia: 76.50MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 254.00FMMongolia: 214.70MNMyanmar: 184.10MMNew Zealand: 12.20NZPapua New Guinea: 189.60PGPhilippines: 202.80PHSamoa: 145.50WSSingapore: 23.40SGSolomon Islands: 281.20SBThailand: 46.50THTimor-Leste: 185.60TLTonga: 52.30TOVanuatu: 259.90VUViet Nam: 102.80VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 92.50ALArmenia: 74.50AMAustria: 17.50ATAzerbaijan: 125.20AZBelarus: 69.90BYBelgium: 15.30BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 113.90BABulgaria: 62.90BGCroatia: 31.30HRCyprus: 15.80CYCzechia: 32.50CZDenmark: 12.90DKEstonia: 12.80EEFinland: 7.40FIFrance: 10.00FRGeorgia: 92.80GEGermany: 14.70DEGreece: 23.00GRHungary: 42.30HUIceland: 8.20ISIreland: 12.80IEItaly: 15.00ITKazakhstan: 83.40KZKyrgyz Republic: 124.90KGLatvia: 40.10LVLithuania: 38.80LTLuxembourg: 12.50LUMoldova: 68.90MDMontenegro: 115.20MENetherlands: 13.10NLNorth Macedonia: 95.60MKNorway: 7.90NOPoland: 40.90PLPortugal: 10.00PTRomania: 67.80RORussian Federation: 67.10RUSerbia: 71.50RSSlovak Republic: 30.30SKSlovenia: 18.80SISpain: 10.10ESSweden: 8.10SESwitzerland: 10.40CHTajikistan: 203.80TJTurkiye: 45.50TRTurkmenistan: 87.90TMUkraine: 78.90UAUnited Kingdom: 13.40GBUzbekistan: 151.70UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 19.30AGArgentina: 29.70ARBahamas, The: 10.40BSBarbados: 18.80BBBelize: 41.00BZBolivia: 77.10BOBrazil: 28.90BRChile: 17.90CLColombia: 31.30COCosta Rica: 17.80CRCuba: 41.90CUDominican Republic: 41.30DOEcuador: 28.10ECEl Salvador: 40.30SVGrenada: 47.40GDGuatemala: 91.00GTGuyana: 95.70GYHaiti: 206.40HTHonduras: 112.50HNJamaica: 35.90JMMexico: 44.70MXNicaragua: 84.40NIPanama: 27.30PAParaguay: 55.60PYPeru: 37.90PESt. Lucia: 27.70LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 34.40VCSuriname: 51.00SRTrinidad and Tobago: 19.80TTUruguay: 16.20UYVenezuela, RB: 37.90VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 265.70AFAlgeria: 49.70DZBahrain: 68.10BHDjibouti: 177.90DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 105.60EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 58.10IRIraq: 89.70IQIsrael: 15.10ILJordan: 38.70JOKuwait: 45.20KWLebanon: 58.60LBLibya: 53.90LYMalta: 20.90MTMorocco: 66.60MAOman: 104.00OMPakistan: 192.10PKQatar: 90.80QASaudi Arabia: 91.10SASyrian Arab Republic: 94.50SYTunisia: 55.90TNUnited Arab Emirates: 70.00AEYemen, Rep.: 186.30YENorth AmericaCanada: 8.10CAUnited States: 14.20USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 143.90BDBhutan: 94.30BTIndia: 139.30INMaldives: 32.00MVNepal: 177.90NPSri Lanka: 91.60LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 142.80AOBenin: 201.80BJBotswana: 140.70BWBurkina Faso: 201.30BFBurundi: 205.90BICabo Verde: 91.20CVCameroon: 206.70CMCentral African Republic: 305.10CFChad: 227.40TDComoros: 164.60KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 209.80CDCongo, Rep.: 170.40CGCote d'Ivoire: 186.50CIEquatorial Guinea: 165.70GQEritrea: 237.40EREswatini: 173.70SZEthiopia: 142.50ETGabon: 78.30GAGambia, The: 220.50GMGhana: 193.60GHGuinea: 238.00GNGuinea-Bissau: 228.80GWKenya: 131.90KELesotho: 288.30LSLiberia: 152.70LRMadagascar: 208.00MGMalawi: 148.50MWMali: 167.10MLMauritania: 128.40MRMauritius: 34.70MUMozambique: 228.40MZNamibia: 142.50NANiger: 213.30NENigeria: 165.20NGRwanda: 165.80RWSao Tome and Principe: 225.40STSenegal: 146.40SNSeychelles: 43.10SCSierra Leone: 239.00SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 237.90SOSouth Africa: 74.90ZASouth Sudan: 134.50SSSudan: 145.30SDTanzania: 128.30TZTogo: 223.10TGUganda: 163.00UGZambia: 174.00ZMZimbabwe: 189.60ZW

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Highest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized (per 100,000 population)
1 Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa 305.10
2 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 288.30
3 Solomon Islands East Asia & Pacific 281.20
4 Afghanistan Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 265.70
5 Vanuatu East Asia & Pacific 259.90
6 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. East Asia & Pacific 254.00
7 Kiribati East Asia & Pacific 246.60
8 Sierra Leone Sub-Saharan Africa 239.00
9 Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa 238.00
10 Somalia, Fed. Rep. Sub-Saharan Africa 237.90

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By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 57 28.65
Upper middle income 50 72.77
Lower middle income 49 162.58
Low income 25 200.88
Not classified 2 90.20

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 131.51
Europe & Central Asia 48 50.41
Latin America & Caribbean 31 47.41
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 22 90.84
North America 2 11.15
South Asia 6 113.17
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 175.67

Lowest Values — 2019

# Country Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized (per 100,000 population)
1 Finland 7.40
2 Norway 7.90
3 Canada 8.10
4 Sweden 8.10
5 Iceland 8.20
6 Australia 9.80
7 Portugal 10.00
8 France 10.00
9 Spain 10.10
10 Switzerland 10.40
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.STA.AIRP.P5), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2019.