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This indicator presents the percentage of people estimated to be exposed to harmful levels of environmental noise from roads in urban areas with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In accordance with the lowest available values used in noise mapping for measuring noise pollution under the Environmental Noise Directive (END), 55 dB for the day-evening-night period was used as threshold values for
Datasets
Urban population exposed to harmful levels of long-term road traffic noise (2017)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
Published: 15 Nov 2024
Temporal coverage: 2017
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These country fact sheets summarise information on noise pollution for selected EEA member countries. The fact sheets are based on the latest official noise data reported every five years by EEA member countries under the Environmental Noise Directive (END).
Archived or restricted datasets
Urban population exposed to harmful levels of long-term road traffic noise_superseded (2017)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Archived
Published: 28 Nov 2023
Temporal coverage: 2017
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These country fact sheets summarise information on noise pollution for selected EEA member countries. The fact sheets are based on the latest official noise data reported every five years by EEA member countries under the Environmental Noise Directive (END).
Urban population exposed to harmful levels of long-term road traffic noise_superseded (2017)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Archived
Published: 27 May 2024
Temporal coverage: 2017
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These country fact sheets summarise information on noise pollution for selected EEA member countries. The fact sheets are based on the latest official noise data reported every five years by EEA member countries under the Environmental Noise Directive (END).
Urban population exposed to harmful levels of long-term road traffic noise_superseded (2017)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Archived
Published: 13 Jun 2024
Temporal coverage: 2017
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These country fact sheets summarise information on noise pollution for selected EEA member countries. The fact sheets are based on the latest official noise data reported every five years by EEA member countries under the Environmental Noise Directive (END).
Urban population exposed to harmful levels of long-term road traffic noise_superseded (2017)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)Archived
Published: 23 Sep 2024
Temporal coverage: 2017
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Links:
These country fact sheets summarise information on noise pollution for selected EEA member countries. The fact sheets are based on the latest official noise data reported every five years by EEA member countries under the Environmental Noise Directive (END).