Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Sierra Leone 333.00 2016
2 Nigeria 313.00 2016
3 Chad 262.00 2016
4 Côte d'Ivoire 259.00 2016
5 Guinea 237.00 2016
5 Niger 237.00 2016
7 Togo 234.00 2016
8 The Gambia 220.00 2016
9 Mali 216.00 2016
10 Guinea-Bissau 206.00 2016
11 Ghana 204.00 2016
11 Central African Republic 204.00 2016
11 Somalia 204.00 2016
14 Burkina Faso 194.00 2016
15 Benin 193.00 2016
16 Cameroon 190.00 2016
17 Sudan 175.00 2016
18 Equatorial Guinea 174.00 2016
19 Burundi 173.00 2016
20 Liberia 172.00 2016
21 Lesotho 166.00 2016
21 Dem. Rep. Congo 166.00 2016
23 São Tomé and Principe 158.00 2016
24 Mauritania 157.00 2016
25 Uganda 155.00 2016
26 Comoros 154.00 2016
27 Madagascar 153.00 2016
28 Senegal 152.00 2016
29 Eritrea 150.00 2016
30 Djibouti 143.00 2016
31 Congo 138.00 2016
32 Tanzania 135.00 2016
33 Zimbabwe 133.00 2016
34 Ethiopia 132.00 2016
35 Namibia 129.00 2016
36 Eswatini 124.00 2016
37 Zambia 121.00 2016
38 Rwanda 118.00 2016
39 Angola 117.00 2016
40 Mozambique 106.00 2016
41 Malawi 104.00 2016
42 Egypt 90.00 2016
43 Botswana 88.00 2016
44 Cabo Verde 85.00 2016
45 Kenya 75.00 2016
46 Gabon 73.00 2016
47 South Africa 66.00 2016
48 Libya 54.00 2016
49 Algeria 44.00 2016
50 Morocco 42.00 2016
50 Tunisia 42.00 2016
52 Seychelles 31.00 2016
53 Mauritius 28.00 2016

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Development Relevance: Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental risks to health. According to the World Health Organization, the combined effects of ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution cause about 7 million premature deaths every year. Most deaths occur due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. The majority of the burden is borne by populations in low and middle income countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Estimates of the joint effects of air pollution are constrained by limited knowledge on the distribution of the population exposed to both household and ambient air pollution, correlation of exposures at individual level as household air pollution is a contributor to ambient air pollution, and non-linear interactions

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual