Urban SO2 concentration statistics - countries compared

SOURCE
World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000; WHO,Air Management Information System-AMIS 2.0, 1998; and Global Urban Observatory, Citibase, 1999. via ciesin.org

DEFINITION
Urban SO2 concentration
Units: Micrograms/m3
Units: The values were originally collected at the city level. Each nation varied in terms of the number of cities reported, so this data should be used with some caution. Within each country the values have been normalized by city population for the year 1995, then added together to obtain the total concentration for the given country.

Environment Statistics > Urban SO2 concentration (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Iran:

209 micrograms/m3

# 2

Sierra Leone:

155.89 micrograms/m3

# 3

Liberia:

152.18 micrograms/m3

# 4

Nigeria:

149.5 micrograms/m3

# 5

Niger:

146.57 micrograms/m3

# 6

Burkina Faso:

145.42 micrograms/m3

# 7

Cote d'Ivoire:

137.72 micrograms/m3

# 8

Somalia:

137.61 micrograms/m3

# 9

Mauritania:

135.89 micrograms/m3

# 10

Burma:

135.07 micrograms/m3

# 11

Mali:

134.39 micrograms/m3

# 12

Chad:

126.77 micrograms/m3

# 13

Iraq:

121.24 micrograms/m3

# 14

Guinea-Bissau:

119.06 micrograms/m3

# 15

Sudan:

116.64 micrograms/m3

# 16

Benin:

116.45 micrograms/m3

# 17

Cameroon:

114.97 micrograms/m3

# 18

Togo:

112.4 micrograms/m3

# 19

Gabon:

109.48 micrograms/m3

# 20

Angola:

108.55 micrograms/m3

# 21

Malawi:

106.66 micrograms/m3

# 22

Burundi:

104.1 micrograms/m3

# 23

Kazakhstan:

103.96 micrograms/m3

# 24

Laos:

103.19 micrograms/m3

# 25

Rwanda:

102.81 micrograms/m3

# 26

Russia:

97.55 micrograms/m3

# 27

Ethiopia:

97.46 micrograms/m3

# 28

China:

97.07 micrograms/m3

# 29

Zambia:

96.68 micrograms/m3

# 30

Guinea:

93.84 micrograms/m3

# 31

Turkmenistan:

92.24 micrograms/m3

# 32

Pakistan:

91.95 micrograms/m3

# 33

Mozambique:

90.47 micrograms/m3

# 34

Madagascar:

89.7 micrograms/m3

# 35

Turkey:

87.02 micrograms/m3

# 36

Kyrgyzstan:

82.8 micrograms/m3

# 37

Bhutan:

81.22 micrograms/m3

# 38

Algeria:

80.17 micrograms/m3

# 39

Uganda:

79.53 micrograms/m3

# 40

Morocco:

78.15 micrograms/m3

# 41

Brazil:

75.78 micrograms/m3

# 42

Mexico:

74 micrograms/m3

# 43

Nepal:

71.84 micrograms/m3

# 44

Central African Republic:

71.5 micrograms/m3

# 45

Gambia, The:

69.33 micrograms/m3

# 46

Uzbekistan:

69.18 micrograms/m3

# 47

Egypt:

69 micrograms/m3

# 48

Papua New Guinea:

66.38 micrograms/m3

# 49

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

65.76 micrograms/m3

= 50

Vietnam:

64.07 micrograms/m3

= 50

Ghana:

64.07 micrograms/m3

# 52

Libya:

63.66 micrograms/m3

# 53

Syria:

63.5 micrograms/m3

# 54

Lebanon:

62.71 micrograms/m3

# 55

United Arab Emirates:

61.54 micrograms/m3

# 56

Moldova:

58.34 micrograms/m3

# 57

Tunisia:

58.16 micrograms/m3

# 58

Cambodia:

57.52 micrograms/m3

# 59

Poland:

54.72 micrograms/m3

# 60

Jordan:

54.64 micrograms/m3

# 61

Peru:

52.62 micrograms/m3

# 62

Bulgaria:

52.45 micrograms/m3

# 63

Korea, South:

52.41 micrograms/m3

# 64

Slovenia:

51.21 micrograms/m3

# 65

Indonesia:

51.05 micrograms/m3

# 66

Bolivia:

50.41 micrograms/m3

# 67

Tanzania:

48.97 micrograms/m3

# 68

Tajikistan:

48.85 micrograms/m3

# 69

Bangladesh:

48.3 micrograms/m3

# 70

Kenya:

47.81 micrograms/m3

# 71

Senegal:

47.25 micrograms/m3

# 72

Belarus:

45.15 micrograms/m3

# 73

El Salvador:

44.13 micrograms/m3

# 74

Haiti:

43.7 micrograms/m3

# 75

Saudi Arabia:

43.64 micrograms/m3

# 76

Honduras:

41.17 micrograms/m3

# 77

Mongolia:

41.16 micrograms/m3

# 78

Uruguay:

40.04 micrograms/m3

# 79

Costa Rica:

38.84 micrograms/m3

# 80

Zimbabwe:

38.44 micrograms/m3

# 81

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

37.68 micrograms/m3

# 82

Paraguay:

37.51 micrograms/m3

# 83

Hungary:

37.33 micrograms/m3

# 84

Estonia:

37.09 micrograms/m3

# 85

Ukraine:

37.08 micrograms/m3

# 86

Greece:

34 micrograms/m3

# 87

Nicaragua:

33.45 micrograms/m3

= 88

Venezuela:

33 micrograms/m3

= 88

Philippines:

33 micrograms/m3

# 90

Croatia:

31 micrograms/m3

# 91

Chile:

29 micrograms/m3

# 92

Albania:

28.69 micrograms/m3

# 93

India:

27.55 micrograms/m3

# 94

Czech Republic:

27.34 micrograms/m3

# 95

Korea, North:

27.19 micrograms/m3

# 96

Sri Lanka:

24.57 micrograms/m3

# 97

Japan:

24.33 micrograms/m3

# 98

Oman:

24.03 micrograms/m3

# 99

Slovakia:

22.66 micrograms/m3

# 100

South Africa:

22.37 micrograms/m3

# 101

Jamaica:

22.12 micrograms/m3

# 102

United Kingdom:

21.96 micrograms/m3

# 103

Ecuador:

21.52 micrograms/m3

# 104

Belgium:

21.02 micrograms/m3

# 105

Colombia:

20.75 micrograms/m3

# 106

Malaysia:

20.49 micrograms/m3

# 107

Trinidad and Tobago:

19.82 micrograms/m3

# 108

Armenia:

19.33 micrograms/m3

# 109

Ireland:

18.89 micrograms/m3

# 110

Kuwait:

17.53 micrograms/m3

# 111

Dominica:

16.96 micrograms/m3

# 112

Israel:

16.82 micrograms/m3

# 113

Italy:

15.55 micrograms/m3

# 114

United States:

15.43 micrograms/m3

# 115

Botswana:

14.47 micrograms/m3

# 116

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

14.06 micrograms/m3

# 117

France:

13.89 micrograms/m3

# 118

Guatemala:

13.51 micrograms/m3

# 119

Austria:

13.21 micrograms/m3

# 120

Australia:

13.17 micrograms/m3

# 121

Canada:

12.87 micrograms/m3

# 122

Germany:

12.8 micrograms/m3

# 123

Azerbaijan:

11.56 micrograms/m3

# 124

Switzerland:

11.34 micrograms/m3

= 125

Spain:

11 micrograms/m3

= 125

Thailand:

11 micrograms/m3

# 127

Panama:

10.33 micrograms/m3

# 128

Namibia:

10.24 micrograms/m3

= 129

Netherlands:

10 micrograms/m3

= 129

Romania:

10 micrograms/m3

# 131

Portugal:

9.22 micrograms/m3

# 132

Denmark:

7 micrograms/m3

# 133

Norway:

5.47 micrograms/m3

# 134

Latvia:

5.36 micrograms/m3

# 135

Sweden:

5.23 micrograms/m3

# 136

Iceland:

5 micrograms/m3

# 137

Finland:

4.38 micrograms/m3

# 138

New Zealand:

3.49 micrograms/m3

# 139

Lithuania:

2.1 micrograms/m3

# 140

Argentina:

1.02 micrograms/m3

# 141

Cuba:

1 micrograms/m3

Weighted average:

55.9 micrograms/m3

DEFINITION: Urban SO2 concentration
Units: Micrograms/m3
Units: The values were originally collected at the city level. Each nation varied in terms of the number of cities reported, so this data should be used with some caution. Within each country the values have been normalized by city population for the year 1995, then added together to obtain the total concentration for the given country.

SOURCE: World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000; WHO,Air Management Information System-AMIS 2.0, 1998; and Global Urban Observatory, Citibase, 1999. via ciesin.org

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