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Premature deaths attributable to exposure to PM₂.₅ at NUTS3 level for European countries in 2021, adjusted for population

Figure Created 06 Nov 2023 Published 09 Nov 2023 Last modified 26 Mar 2024
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The map shows the number of premature deaths (PDs) attributable to PM₂.₅ in 2021 at NUTS3 level for European countries. The PDs, which in absolute terms are higher for those NUTS3 level regions with the highest populations, have been normalised by 100,000 inhabitants, to make the numbers comparable among regions. For countries where NUTS3 regions are not available, the national value is shown.

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information.png Methodology:

The number of premature deaths have been calculated according to methodology described in EEA´s briefing Assessing the risks to health from air pollution (https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/assessing-the-risks-to-health/assessing-the-risks-to-health) and the ETC-EH Eionet report 2022/10 (https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-he/products/etc-he-products/etc-he-reports/etc-he-report-2022-10-health-risk-assessment-of-air-pollution-and-the-impact-of-the-new-who-guidelines). The current calculations will be presented in the forthcoming Eionet report "Health risk assessment of air pollution: assessing the environmental burden of disease of air pollution in Europe in 2021" and the table https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/App/AQViewer/index.html?fqn=Airquality_Dissem.hra.nuts3_sel&%22EUCountries=Yes&UrbanisationDegree=All%20Areas%20(incl.unclassified)&Year=2020&ScenarioDescription=WHO_2021_AQG_Scen_Base&AirPollutant=PM2.5

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Number of premature deaths attributed to PM2.5

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The values in the legend represent the four quintiles of the PD/100,000 series which has been in this way divided in five parts with the same number of data.

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External Data Spec NUTS administrative units The GISCO statistical unit dataset represents the NUTS (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) and Statistical regions by means of multipart polygon, polyline and point topology. The NUTS geographical information is completed by attribute tables and a set of cartographic help lines to better visualize multipart polygonal regions. The NUTS are a hierarchical system divided into 3 levels. NUTS1: major socio-economic regions, NUTS2: basic regions for the application of regional policies, NUTS3: small regions for specific diagnoses. Additionally a NUTS 0 level, usually co-incident with national boundaries are also available. The NUTS legislation is periodically amended; therefore multiple years are available for download.
External Data Spec Air Quality Health Risk Assessments (NUTS3 and countries), 2021 This data set presents assessment of health risk due to exposure to three main pollutants (PM2.5, NO2 and O3-SOMO35) at NUTS3 and Country levels. In addition, average and population weighted average concentration values are available in the data set for PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and O3 (SOMO35). The calculations are made for years 2005 to 2020. The concentrations data are taken from the ETC/ATNI interpolated maps (ETC/ATNI Eionet Reports 1/2020/ and 1/2021 and references therein). The methodology is as described in ETC/ATNI Eionet Report 10/2021, aggregating at country level.

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