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Top 10 Countries with the Most Polluted Air

The countries where people breathe the most fine-particle (PM2.5) pollution on average.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by mean annual exposure to pm2.5 air pollution (µg/m³)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. Qatar

    Data year 2024

    107.8 µg/m³

    No change

  2. Saudi Arabia

    Data year 2024

    73.5 µg/m³

    No change

  3. Bangladesh

    Data year 2024

    69.3 µg/m³

    No change
  1. 4NigeriaData year 202465.7 µg/m³No change
  2. 5NigerData year 202465.2 µg/m³No change
  3. 6KuwaitData year 202462.3 µg/m³No change
  4. 7PakistanData year 202458.4 µg/m³No change
  5. 8United Arab EmiratesData year 202457.2 µg/m³No change
  6. 9BahrainData year 202456.6 µg/m³No change
  7. 10CameroonData year 202455.6 µg/m³No change
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  1. 11IndiaData year 202454.1 µg/m³No change
  2. 12NepalData year 202353.2 µg/m³No change
  3. 13IraqData year 202449.5 µg/m³No change
  4. 14OmanData year 202446.9 µg/m³No change
  5. 15Yemen, Rep.Data year 202346.8 µg/m³No change
  6. 16MauritaniaData year 202446.5 µg/m³No change
  7. 17Egypt, Arab Rep.Data year 202343.1 µg/m³No change
  8. 18ChadData year 202443.0 µg/m³No change
  9. 19MongoliaData year 202442.7 µg/m³No change
  10. 20Equatorial GuineaData year 202442.2 µg/m³No change
  11. 21SenegalData year 202341.6 µg/m³No change
  12. 22DjiboutiData year 202340.3 µg/m³No change
  13. 23Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 202440.2 µg/m³No change
  14. 24BeninData year 202339.7 µg/m³No change
  15. 25Gambia, TheData year 202338.3 µg/m³No change
  16. 26AfghanistanData year 202437.9 µg/m³No change
  17. 27SudanData year 202437.6 µg/m³No change
  18. 28Burkina FasoData year 202437.3 µg/m³No change
  19. 29Congo, Rep.Data year 202436.5 µg/m³No change
  20. 30RwandaData year 202336.0 µg/m³No change
  21. 31Congo, Dem. Rep.Data year 202435.8 µg/m³No change
  22. 32BurundiData year 202335.7 µg/m³No change
  23. 33MaliData year 202435.5 µg/m³No change
  24. 34MyanmarData year 202435.1 µg/m³No change
  25. 35TogoData year 202334.3 µg/m³No change
  26. 36EritreaData year 202333.7 µg/m³No change
  27. 37TajikistanData year 202333.3 µg/m³No change
  28. 38Central African RepublicData year 202433.3 µg/m³No change
  29. 39UzbekistanData year 202332.8 µg/m³No change
  30. 40JordanData year 202332.6 µg/m³No change
  31. 41Guinea-BissauData year 202432.3 µg/m³No change
  32. 42Syrian Arab RepublicData year 202332.1 µg/m³No change
  33. 43ChinaData year 202432.0 µg/m³No change
  34. 44GabonData year 202431.3 µg/m³No change
  35. 45TurkmenistanData year 202431.2 µg/m³No change
  36. 46UgandaData year 202431.2 µg/m³No change
  37. 47PeruData year 202331.1 µg/m³No change
  38. 48HondurasData year 202430.7 µg/m³No change
  39. 49BhutanData year 202330.1 µg/m³No change
  40. 50GuatemalaData year 202329.7 µg/m³No change

How this list is ranked

Mean annual exposure to PM2.5 air pollution (µg/m³) (World Bank indicator EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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