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FIG2-External costs by sector aggregated over all pollutants (2012-2021)
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Mortality valued using the value of a life year (VOLY).
Euro price base: 2021.
Data gaps: Czechia (2021), Malta (2020-2021), Lithuania (2020-2021) and Slovakia (2018-2021). This data has been projected using the latest reported year for the summaries at EU level (by pollutant group and by sector), but not when individual countries or facilities are presented.
In addition to the sectors shown in the Figure 2, the analysis also covered livestock (i.e. intensive rearing of pigs and poultry on large farms), waste management and wastewater. Due to the nature of the sectors, the scope of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) legislation and the selection of pollutants, these sectors represented a low amount of external costs to health and the environment, which could lead to misleading conclusions. Therefore, they have not been presented in this figure.