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Annual deaths attributed air pollution from fossil fuels

Name: Annual deaths attributed air pollution from fossil fuels by country, 2015
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deaths · lower is better · 178 countries

Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); underlying sources incl. V-DemCC BY 4.0updated 2015

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178 countries · 2015

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Annual deaths attributed air pollution from fossil fuels league table
#	Country	deaths	Region	Income
1	Kiribati	0	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
2	Tonga	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
3	Samoa	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
4	Sao Tome and Principe	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
5	Vanuatu	3	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
6	Grenada	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
7	Antigua and Barbuda	4	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
8	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
9	Equatorial Guinea	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
10	St. Lucia	6	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
11	Seychelles	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	High income
12	Suriname	10	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
13	Timor-Leste	11	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
14	Gabon	12	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
15	Comoros	13	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
16	Solomon Islands	14	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
17	Liberia	15	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
18	Barbados	15	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
19	Guyana	17	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
20	Fiji	19	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
21	Brunei Darussalam	19	East Asia & Pacific	High income
22	Cabo Verde	22	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
23	Belize	25	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
24	Iceland	26	Europe & Central Asia	High income
25	Maldives	26	South Asia	Upper middle income
26	Guinea-Bissau	36	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
27	Mauritius	37	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
28	Bahamas, The	44	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
29	Congo, Rep.	46	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
30	Djibouti	50	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
31	Namibia	50	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
32	Trinidad and Tobago	51	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
33	Gambia, The	52	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
34	Qatar	80	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
35	Cote d'Ivoire	84	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
36	Mauritania	92	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
37	Bolivia	125	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
38	Bahrain	125	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
39	Malta	140	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
40	Sierra Leone	144	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
41	New Zealand	154	East Asia & Pacific	High income
42	Oman	165	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
43	Togo	171	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
44	Ghana	177	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
45	Madagascar	196	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
46	Central African Republic	198	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
47	Malawi	201	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
48	Botswana	204	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
49	Eswatini	233	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
50	Guinea	249	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
51	Rwanda	254	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
52	Panama	271	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
53	Jamaica	274	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
54	Burundi	292	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
55	Luxembourg	293	Europe & Central Asia	High income
56	Kuwait	298	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
57	Benin	300	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
58	Bhutan	311	South Asia	Lower middle income
59	Papua New Guinea	322	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
60	Eritrea	329	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
61	Uruguay	331	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
62	Zambia	348	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
63	Cyprus	356	Europe & Central Asia	High income
64	Costa Rica	371	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
65	Paraguay	391	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
66	Zimbabwe	407	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
67	Mozambique	410	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
68	United Arab Emirates	423	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
69	Honduras	427	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
70	Nicaragua	435	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
71	Senegal	438	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
72	Turkmenistan	457	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
73	Mongolia	462	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
74	Mali	495	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
75	Niger	562	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
76	Burkina Faso	567	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
77	Lesotho	584	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
78	Chad	584	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
79	Libya	598	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
80	Dominican Republic	620	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
81	Angola	622	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
82	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	646	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
83	Cameroon	650	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
84	Uganda	724	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
85	El Salvador	747	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
86	Estonia	755	Europe & Central Asia	High income
87	Tajikistan	780	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
88	Kyrgyz Republic	837	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
89	Haiti	915	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
90	Tanzania	924	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
91	Ireland	970	Europe & Central Asia	High income
92	Jordan	1,060	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
93	Singapore	1,095	East Asia & Pacific	High income
94	Kenya	1,164	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
95	Armenia	1,240	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
96	Congo, Dem. Rep.	1,274	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
97	Chile	1,282	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
98	Albania	1,308	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
99	Azerbaijan	1,381	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
100	Guatemala	1,436	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
101	Australia	1,451	East Asia & Pacific	High income
102	North Macedonia	1,452	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
103	Tunisia	1,509	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
104	Peru	1,543	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
105	Norway	1,628	Europe & Central Asia	High income
106	Latvia	1,682	Europe & Central Asia	High income
107	Cuba	1,728	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
108	Slovenia	1,736	Europe & Central Asia	High income
109	Venezuela, RB	1,804	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
110	Yemen, Rep.	1,838	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
111	Israel	1,925	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
112	Saudi Arabia	1,944	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
113	Lebanon	2,001	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
114	Algeria	2,008	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
115	Ecuador	2,079	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
116	Georgia	2,112	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
117	Cambodia	2,169	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
118	Lao PDR	2,245	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
119	Finland	2,369	Europe & Central Asia	High income
120	Afghanistan	2,494	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
121	Denmark	2,499	Europe & Central Asia	High income
122	Sri Lanka	2,911	South Asia	Upper middle income
123	Iraq	2,956	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
124	Morocco	2,959	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
125	Lithuania	3,023	Europe & Central Asia	High income
126	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,023	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
127	Syrian Arab Republic	3,240	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
128	Moldova	3,450	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
129	Portugal	3,470	Europe & Central Asia	High income
130	Uzbekistan	3,478	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
131	Ethiopia	3,496	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
132	Colombia	3,726	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
133	Argentina	3,815	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
134	Sweden	4,092	Europe & Central Asia	High income
135	Malaysia	4,220	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
136	Croatia	4,512	Europe & Central Asia	High income
137	Kazakhstan	5,341	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
138	Slovak Republic	5,378	Europe & Central Asia	High income
139	Switzerland	5,645	Europe & Central Asia	High income
140	Greece	6,297	Europe & Central Asia	High income
141	Nigeria	6,410	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
142	Belgium	7,305	Europe & Central Asia	High income
143	Austria	7,835	Europe & Central Asia	High income
144	Bulgaria	8,247	Europe & Central Asia	High income
145	Iran, Islamic Rep.	9,065	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
146	Netherlands	9,412	Europe & Central Asia	High income
147	Belarus	10,938	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
148	Nepal	11,299	South Asia	Lower middle income
149	Czechia	11,534	Europe & Central Asia	High income
150	Philippines	11,665	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
151	Hungary	12,660	Europe & Central Asia	High income
152	Spain	14,504	Europe & Central Asia	High income
153	South Africa	14,802	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
154	Brazil	15,682	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
155	Myanmar	17,414	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
156	Canada	17,574	North America	High income
157	Egypt, Arab Rep.	18,539	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
158	Romania	22,879	Europe & Central Asia	High income
159	Thailand	25,277	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
160	Turkiye	26,231	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
161	United Kingdom	27,905	Europe & Central Asia	High income
162	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	28,629	East Asia & Pacific	Low income
163	Pakistan	29,327	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
164	France	30,802	Europe & Central Asia	High income
165	Korea, Rep.	31,180	East Asia & Pacific	High income
166	Mexico	32,082	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
167	Viet Nam	34,890	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
168	Indonesia	34,924	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
169	Poland	38,858	Europe & Central Asia	High income
170	Italy	40,630	Europe & Central Asia	High income
171	Ukraine	50,691	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
172	Bangladesh	72,971	South Asia	Lower middle income
173	Germany	76,052	Europe & Central Asia	High income
174	Japan	83,696	East Asia & Pacific	High income
175	Russian Federation	113,708	Europe & Central Asia	High income
176	United States	193,617	North America	High income
177	India	691,711	South Asia	Lower middle income
178	China	1.55M	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

Annual deaths attributed air pollution from fossil fuels