Pollution

Pollution And What It is Doing Around The World

• Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.
• People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
• Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.
• Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That’s comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.

How Is Pollution Caused?

• Mobile: Cars, buses, planes, trucks and trains.
• Stationary: Power plants, oil refineries, industrial facilities and factories.
• Area: Agricultural areas, cities and wood-burning fireplaces.
• Natural: Wind-blown dust, wildfires and volcanoes.

Data Analysis

• Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That’s comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.
• In the interactive map we show death rates from air pollution across the world, measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people of a given country or region.