Map of World PM2.5 Air Pollution - WHO Guideline Value by Country

Percent of population exposed to ambient concentrations of PM2.5 that exceed the WHO guideline value is defined as the portion of a country’s population living in places where mean annual concentrations of PM2.5 are greater than 10 micrograms per cubic meter, the guideline value recommended by the World Health Organization as the lower end of the range of concentrations over which adverse health effects due to PM2.5 exposure have been observed.

PM2.5 Air Pollution, Percent of population Exposed to Levels Exceeding Who Guideline Value

Country Name	Country Code	2000	2010	2014	2015
Afghanistan	AFG	100	100	100	100
Albania	ALB	100	100	100	100
Algeria	DZA	100	100	100	100
American Samoa	ASM	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	89.15	91.54	52.36	35.11
Angola	AGO	100	100	100	100
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	100	100	100	100
Arab World	ARB	100	100	100	100
Argentina	ARG	98.09	98.35	97.49	97.33
Armenia	ARM	100	100	100	100
Aruba	ABW	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Australia	AUS	0.13	0	0	0.14
Austria	AUT	99.95	99.96	100	100
Azerbaijan	AZE	100	100	100	100
Bahamas, The	BHS	100	99.93	100	100
Bahrain	BHR	100	100	100	100
Bangladesh	BGD	100	100	100	100
Barbados	BRB	100	100	100	100
Belarus	BLR	100	100	100	100
Belgium	BEL	100	100	100	100
Belize	BLZ	100	100	100	100
Benin	BEN	100	100	100	100
Bermuda	BMU	100	0	0	0
Bhutan	BTN	98.99	99.57	99.74	99.83
Bolivia	BOL	100	100	100	100
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	100	100	100	100
Botswana	BWA	100	99.89	99.54	99.38
Brazil	BRA	77.25	52.36	55.82	55.8
British Virgin Islands	VGB	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	0.24	0.23	0.22	0
Bulgaria	BGR	100	100	100	100
Burkina Faso	BFA	100	100	100	100
Burundi	BDI	100	100	100	100
Cabo Verde	CPV	100	100	100	100
Cambodia	KHM	100	100	100	100
Cameroon	CMR	100	100	100	100
Canada	CAN	4.5	0	0	0.01
Cayman Islands	CYM	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chad	TCD	100	100	100	100
Channel Islands	CHI	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chile	CHL	99.95	99.94	99.93	99.94
China	CHN	100	100	100	100
Colombia	COL	100	98.17	97.56	96
Comoros	COM	100	100	100	100
Congo, Dem. Rep.	COD	100	100	100	100
Congo, Rep.	COG	100	100	100	100
Costa Rica	CRI	100	97.1	99.81	99.86
Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	99.99	99.99	99.98	99.98
Croatia	HRV	100	100	100	100
Cuba	CUB	100	100	100	100
Curacao	CUW	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cyprus	CYP	100	100	100	100
Czech Republic	CZE	100	100	100	100
Denmark	DNK	85.16	64.56	71.31	78.8
Djibouti	DJI	100	100	100	100
Dominica	DMA	100	100	100	100
Dominican Republic	DOM	100	100	100	100
Ecuador	ECU	100	98.24	97.29	91.77
Egypt, Arab Rep.	EGY	100	100	100	100
El Salvador	SLV	100	100	100	100
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	100	100	100	100
Eritrea	ERI	100	100	100	100
Estonia	EST	0.1	0.12	5	15.25
Ethiopia	ETH	100	100	100	100
Faroe Islands	FRO	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fiji	FJI	0	0	0	0
Finland	FIN	0	0	0	0.1
France	FRA	94.61	92.07	93.08	92.13
French Polynesia	PYF	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gabon	GAB	100	100	100	100
Gambia, The	GMB	100	100	100	100
Georgia	GEO	98.17	100	100	100
Germany	DEU	99.92	99.84	99.93	99.93
Ghana	GHA	100	100	100	100
Gibraltar	GIB	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Greece	GRC	97.65	96.18	100	100
Greenland	GRL	0	0	0	0
Grenada	GRD	100	100	100	100
Guam	GUM	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	GTM	100	100	100	100
Guinea	GIN	100	100	99.9	99.88
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	100	100	100	100
Guyana	GUY	100	97.2	99.79	98.63
Haiti	HTI	100	100	100	100
High income	HIC	79.08	62.75	61.73	61.87
Honduras	HND	100	100	100	100
Hong Kong SAR, China	HKG	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hungary	HUN	100	100	100	100
Iceland	ISL	0	0	0	0
India	IND	99.98	99.98	99.99	99.99
Indonesia	IDN	96.08	92.30	92.77	88.91
Iran, Islamic Rep.	IRN	100	100	100	100
Iraq	IRQ	100	100	100	100
Ireland	IRL	36.28	8.32	25.28	31.25
Isle of Man	IMN	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Israel	ISR	100	100	100	100
Italy	ITA	99.17	99.25	99.91	100
Jamaica	JAM	100	100	100	100
Japan	JPN	94.33	96.06	97.36	98.42
Jordan	JOR	100	100	100	100
Kazakhstan	KAZ	73.77	81.44	89.27	89.14
Kenya	KEN	99.59	98.14	99.29	98.93
Kiribati	KIR	0	0	0	0
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	PRK	100	100	100	100
Korea, Rep.	KOR	100	100	100	100
Kosovo	KSV	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kuwait	KWT	100	100	100	100
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ	84.3	97.23	99.85	98.93
Lao PDR	LAO	100	100	100	100
Latvia	LVA	99.98	99.98	99.98	100
Lebanon	LBN	100	100	100	100
Lesotho	LSO	100	100	100	100
Liberia	LBR	44.17	31.64	19.47	2.82
Libya	LBY	100	100	100	100
Liechtenstein	LIE	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lithuania	LTU	100	100	100	100
Luxembourg	LUX	100	100	100	100
Macao SAR, China	MAC	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	100	100	100	100
Madagascar	MDG	99.97	98.72	98.9	98.74
Malawi	MWI	100	100	100.35	99.58
Malaysia	MYS	98.02	98.8	89.77	86.85
Maldives	MDV	100	100	100	100
Mali	MLI	100	100	100	100
Malta	MLT	100	100	100	100
Marshall Islands	MHL	100	0	0	0
Mauritania	MRT	100	100	100	100
Mauritius	MUS	100	91.79	100	100
Mexico	MEX	99.99	99.99	99.98	99.96
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	FSM	0	0	0	0
Moldova	MDA	100	100	100	100
Monaco	MCO	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mongolia	MNG	88.98	81.96	91.39	91.67
Montenegro	MNE	100	100	100	100
Morocco	MAR	100	100	100	100
Mozambique	MOZ	100	99.86	99.8	99.66
Myanmar	MMR	100	100	100	100
Namibia	NAM	99.48	97.44	96.57	96.43
Nauru	NRU	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nepal	NPL	99.92	99.93	99.98	99.98
Netherlands	NLD	100	100	100	100
New Caledonia	NCL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
New Zealand	NZL	0.24	0	0	0
Nicaragua	NIC	100	100	100	100
Niger	NER	100	100	100	100
Nigeria	NGA	100	100	100	100
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	100	100	100	100
Norway	NOR	19.19	6.89	6.51	8.78
Oman	OMN	100	100	100	100
Pakistan	PAK	100	99.98	100	100
Palau	PLW	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Panama	PAN	100	52.33	75.31	90.61
Papua New Guinea	PNG	96.45	19.53	74.93	65.38
Paraguay	PRY	100	100	100	99.97
Peru	PER	100	100	99.99	99.99
Philippines	PHL	100	100	100	100
Poland	POL	100	100	100	100
Portugal	PRT	21.32	16.88	19.69	24.22
Puerto Rico	PRI	100	100	100	100
Qatar	QAT	100	100	100	100
Romania	ROU	100	100	100	100
Russian Federation	RUS	89.13	89.48	89.99	89.66
Rwanda	RWA	100	100	100	100
Samoa	WSM	0	0	0	0
San Marino	SMR	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	100	100	100	100
Saudi Arabia	SAU	100	100	100	100
Senegal	SEN	100	100	100	100
Serbia	SRB	100	100	100	100
Seychelles	SYC	100	100	100	100
Sierra Leone	SLE	100	100	99.97	99.97
Singapore	SGP	100	100	100	100
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	SXM	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Slovak Republic	SVK	100	100	100	100
Slovenia	SVN	100	100	100	100
Solomon Islands	SLB	0	0	0	0
Somalia	SOM	100	100	99.93	99.66
South Africa	ZAF	100	99.8	99.84	99.87
South Sudan	SSD	100	100	100	100
Spain	ESP	38.34	26.28	26.08	28.11
Sri Lanka	LKA	100	100	100	100
St. Kitts and Nevis	KNA	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
St. Lucia	LCA	100	100	100	100
St. Martin (French part)	MAF	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	100	100	100	100
Sudan	SDN	100	100	100	100
Suriname	SUR	100	93.4	99.99	99.99
Eswatini(Swaziland)	SWZ	100	100	100	100
Sweden	SWE	0.01	0	0	0
Switzerland	CHE	83.25	77.92	99.9	100
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	100	100	100	100
Tajikistan	TJK	100	100	100	100
Tanzania	TZA	100	100	100	99.99
Thailand	THA	100	100	100	100
Timor-Leste	TLS	100	100	99.41	97.55
Togo	TGO	100	100	100	100
Tonga	TON	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	100	100	100	100
Tunisia	TUN	100	100	100	100
Turkey	TUR	100	100	100	100
Turkmenistan	TKM	100	100	100	100
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tuvalu	TUV	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Uganda	UGA	100	100	100	100
Ukraine	UKR	100	100	100	100
United Arab Emirates	ARE	100	100	100	100
United Kingdom	GBR	92.96	86.42	89.3	89.84
United States	USA	65.26	11.46	8.98	8.64
Uruguay	URY	100	98.01	86.12	85.94
Uzbekistan	UZB	100	100	100	100
Vanuatu	VUT	0	0	0	0
Venezuela, RB	VEN	100	99.99	100	99.97
Vietnam	VNM	100	100	100	100
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	VIR	100	100	100	100
West Bank and Gaza	PSE	100	100	100	100
World	WLD	95.12	91.69	91.96	91.83
Yemen, Rep.	YEM	100	100	100	100
Zambia	ZMB	100	100	100	100
Zimbabwe	ZWE	100	100	100	100

Last Updated on : November 21, 2016