Number of people exposed to average day-evening-night noise levels (Lden) ≥ 55 dB in Europe
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Created 04 Nov 2019
Published 21 Nov 2019
Last modified 21 Nov 2019
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- Urban agglomerations are defined as in the Environmental Noise Directive as that the part of the territory, delimited by the Member State, that has a population in excess of 100 000 persons and a population density such that the Member State considers it to be an urbanised area.
- The numbers of people exposed can only be summed for the same source inside and outside urban areas and not across sources, since the latter could lead to double counting.
- 55 dB Lden is the EU threshold for excess exposure defined in the Environmental Noise Directive and indicating an annual average level during the day, evening and night; dB=decibel.
- Total values at EU-28 and EEA-33 level per noise source are gap filled.
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Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC provided by European Environment Agency (EEA)Geographic coverage
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/number-of-people-exposed-to-8 or scan the QR code.
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