Urban NO2 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 NO2 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 NO2 concentration (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Mexico:

130 micrograms/m3

# 2

Italy:

124.38 micrograms/m3

# 3

Bulgaria:

111.14 micrograms/m3

# 4

United Arab Emirates:

93.7 micrograms/m3

# 5

Benin:

83.02 micrograms/m3

# 6

Paraguay:

81.35 micrograms/m3

# 7

Saudi Arabia:

81.06 micrograms/m3

# 8

Chile:

81 micrograms/m3

# 9

Ghana:

78.99 micrograms/m3

# 10

Turkmenistan:

78.54 micrograms/m3

# 11

Zambia:

77.89 micrograms/m3

# 12

Colombia:

77.84 micrograms/m3

# 13

Madagascar:

74.32 micrograms/m3

# 14

Gambia, The:

72.72 micrograms/m3

# 15

China:

71.72 micrograms/m3

# 16

Kenya:

71.05 micrograms/m3

# 17

Romania:

71 micrograms/m3

# 18

Slovenia:

70.59 micrograms/m3

# 19

El Salvador:

70.5 micrograms/m3

# 20

Guinea:

69.79 micrograms/m3

# 21

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

69.78 micrograms/m3

# 22

Senegal:

69.4 micrograms/m3

# 23

Guatemala:

69.33 micrograms/m3

# 24

Mozambique:

69.3 micrograms/m3

# 25

Sierra Leone:

68.27 micrograms/m3

# 26

Togo:

67.58 micrograms/m3

# 27

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

67.23 micrograms/m3

# 28

Haiti:

67.05 micrograms/m3

# 29

Uganda:

66.8 micrograms/m3

# 30

Vietnam:

65.5 micrograms/m3

# 31

Burma:

65.36 micrograms/m3

# 32

United Kingdom:

64.47 micrograms/m3

# 33

Greece:

64 micrograms/m3

# 34

Latvia:

63.74 micrograms/m3

# 35

Pakistan:

63.59 micrograms/m3

# 36

Rwanda:

62.88 micrograms/m3

# 37

Cote d'Ivoire:

62.85 micrograms/m3

# 38

Angola:

62.73 micrograms/m3

# 39

Japan:

62.01 micrograms/m3

# 40

Liberia:

61.49 micrograms/m3

# 41

Kuwait:

61.33 micrograms/m3

# 42

Albania:

60.89 micrograms/m3

# 43

Guinea-Bissau:

60.83 micrograms/m3

# 44

Mali:

60.58 micrograms/m3

# 45

United States:

60.57 micrograms/m3

# 46

Morocco:

59.76 micrograms/m3

# 47

Ukraine:

59.59 micrograms/m3

# 48

Poland:

58.14 micrograms/m3

# 49

Netherlands:

58 micrograms/m3

# 50

Tajikistan:

57.04 micrograms/m3

# 51

Venezuela:

57 micrograms/m3

# 52

Argentina:

56.79 micrograms/m3

# 53

France:

56.61 micrograms/m3

# 54

Bolivia:

56.14 micrograms/m3

# 55

Azerbaijan:

55.98 micrograms/m3

# 56

Cambodia:

55.61 micrograms/m3

# 57

Tunisia:

55.3 micrograms/m3

# 58

Niger:

54.95 micrograms/m3

# 59

Iraq:

54.84 micrograms/m3

# 60

Gabon:

54.6 micrograms/m3

# 61

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

54.15 micrograms/m3

# 62

Denmark:

54 micrograms/m3

# 63

Nepal:

53.45 micrograms/m3

# 64

Algeria:

53.26 micrograms/m3

# 65

Korea, South:

52.86 micrograms/m3

# 66

Kazakhstan:

52.39 micrograms/m3

# 67

Uzbekistan:

52.12 micrograms/m3

# 68

Cameroon:

51.6 micrograms/m3

# 69

Brazil:

51.37 micrograms/m3

# 70

Malawi:

50.96 micrograms/m3

# 71

Uruguay:

49.92 micrograms/m3

# 72

Norway:

49.65 micrograms/m3

# 73

Estonia:

49.62 micrograms/m3

# 74

Portugal:

49.57 micrograms/m3

# 75

Croatia:

49.24 micrograms/m3

# 76

Moldova:

48.89 micrograms/m3

# 77

Mongolia:

48.34 micrograms/m3

# 78

Zimbabwe:

47.56 micrograms/m3

# 79

Belgium:

46.79 micrograms/m3

# 80

Jamaica:

46.73 micrograms/m3

# 81

Libya:

46.57 micrograms/m3

# 82

Philippines:

46.18 micrograms/m3

# 83

Sudan:

45.76 micrograms/m3

# 84

Costa Rica:

45.75 micrograms/m3

# 85

Papua New Guinea:

45.41 micrograms/m3

# 86

Central African Republic:

45.32 micrograms/m3

# 87

Hungary:

45.11 micrograms/m3

# 88

Dominica:

44.3 micrograms/m3

# 89

South Africa:

44.03 micrograms/m3

# 90

Armenia:

43.88 micrograms/m3

# 91

Egypt:

43.83 micrograms/m3

# 92

Korea, North:

43.24 micrograms/m3

# 93

Belarus:

42.6 micrograms/m3

# 94

Oman:

42.24 micrograms/m3

# 95

Switzerland:

42.2 micrograms/m3

# 96

Bhutan:

42.04 micrograms/m3

= 97

Panama:

42 micrograms/m3

= 97

Iceland:

42 micrograms/m3

# 99

Syria:

41.83 micrograms/m3

# 100

Chad:

41.48 micrograms/m3

# 101

Canada:

41.24 micrograms/m3

# 102

Germany:

40.07 micrograms/m3

# 103

Mauritania:

39.99 micrograms/m3

# 104

Austria:

39.75 micrograms/m3

# 105

Laos:

39.33 micrograms/m3

# 106

Peru:

38.5 micrograms/m3

# 107

Somalia:

37.88 micrograms/m3

# 108

Kyrgyzstan:

37.59 micrograms/m3

# 109

Ecuador:

35.71 micrograms/m3

# 110

Israel:

35.55 micrograms/m3

# 111

Indonesia:

34.62 micrograms/m3

# 112

Jordan:

33.55 micrograms/m3

# 113

Iran:

33.3 micrograms/m3

# 114

Spain:

32.36 micrograms/m3

# 115

Namibia:

32.01 micrograms/m3

# 116

Nicaragua:

32 micrograms/m3

# 117

Bangladesh:

31.4 micrograms/m3

# 118

Botswana:

31.08 micrograms/m3

# 119

Finland:

30.69 micrograms/m3

# 120

Ethiopia:

29.96 micrograms/m3

= 121

Sweden:

29.68 micrograms/m3

= 121

India:

29.68 micrograms/m3

# 123

Honduras:

29.5 micrograms/m3

# 124

Nigeria:

28.68 micrograms/m3

# 125

Czech Republic:

28.59 micrograms/m3

# 126

Lithuania:

28.31 micrograms/m3

# 127

Slovakia:

25.62 micrograms/m3

# 128

Ireland:

24.02 micrograms/m3

# 129

Thailand:

23 micrograms/m3

# 130

Burundi:

22.28 micrograms/m3

# 131

Lebanon:

20.84 micrograms/m3

# 132

Trinidad and Tobago:

19.84 micrograms/m3

# 133

New Zealand:

19.51 micrograms/m3

# 134

Australia:

16.47 micrograms/m3

# 135

Tanzania:

15.78 micrograms/m3

# 136

Burkina Faso:

13.09 micrograms/m3

# 137

Sri Lanka:

10.27 micrograms/m3

# 138

Turkey:

9.45 micrograms/m3

# 139

Cuba:

5 micrograms/m3

# 140

Russia:

3.44 micrograms/m3

# 141

Malaysia:

0 micrograms/m3

Weighted average:

50.6 micrograms/m3

DEFINITION: Urban NO2 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

Environment Statistics > Urban NO2 concentration (most recent) by country

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