The IQAIR study reveals that Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the dirtiest air.
Most of the world’s population breathe polluted air, and only seven countries fill the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, according to a new report.
The air quality monitoring database based in Switzerland IQAIR has discovered its discoveries on Tuesday, which deal with data from 40,000 air quality supervision in 138 countries, discovering that Chad, Bangladesh, is Bangladesh Pakistan, India And the Democratic Republic of Congo has the most polluted air in the world.
Of the countries analyzed, only Australia, New Zealand, Bahama, Barbados, Grenada, Estonia and Iceland were introduced to what international air quality standards are, according to the database.
Gap
The scope of the problem can be far greater than reported, given that many parts of the world lack the supervision of the necessary information necessary. For example, there is only one surveillance station across Africa to every 3.7 million people.
The gap in data could become wider after the announcement of the US Ministry of the State last week that he will no longer publish the information he collects from his embassies and consulates around the world.
Many developing countries relied on air quality sensors mounted on the US embassy and consulated buildings to monitor the level of smog, but the US state department now ends the monitoring scheme, stating the budget limitations.
“Most countries have several other data sources, but this will significantly affect Africa, because these are often the only sources of publicly available information about real-time air monitoring,” said Christer-Schroeder, IQAIR’s air quality manager.
Christa Hasenkopf, CEO of Pure Air Program at the Institute of Energy Policy, University of Chicago (EPIC), said that at least 34 countries would lose access to reliable pollution data after closing the US program.
The State Department’s scheme improved the air quality in cities where monitors were set up, increasing life span and even reducing fees for danger for us diplomats, which means he paid, Hasenkopf said.
As a result of the State Department’s move, more than 17 years of data was removed last week from an official place to monitor the air of the US Government, Airnow.gov, including reading collected in Chad.
According to the report, Chad and Bangladesh had an average level of smog more than 15 times higher than those of those last year.
Chad was ranked in a polluted country in 2022 because of the sahara dust as well as uncontrolled crop combustion.
Climate change play a growing role in launching pollution, warned Cherroeder, with higher temperatures that caused fierce and longer forest fires that swallowed the parts of Southeast Asia and South America.
