PM2.5 stands for particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller. These particles are 30 times thinner than a human hair and come from car exhaust, power plants, wildfires, and burning fuel. They are small enough to bypass your body's natural defenses and enter your bloodstream.

How does air pollution affect the body?

Air pollution affects virtually every organ in the body. PM2.5 particles enter your lungs, pass into your bloodstream, and travel to your heart, brain, kidneys, liver, and other organs. This causes chronic inflammation, increasing risks of heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, dementia, and many other conditions.

How many people are affected by air pollution?

99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds WHO safety guidelines. Air pollution kills approximately 8 million people every year—more than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

Algeria's Adrar Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Adrar

Adrar faces significant air pollution challenges. 0% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 537 thousand across 28 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 2.3µg/m³. That's 0.5 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 38 cigarettes in a year.

Trends

Air Quality Trend

Annual PM2.5 levels from 2014 to 2023. The WHO guideline for safe air is 5 µg/m³.

Health Impact

Life Expectancy Impact

If Adrar met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0 years longer.

That's 0 years of life stolen from 537 thousand people. Years of watching children grow up. Years of building a career. Years of quiet mornings and celebrations.

Lives cut short. Breathing kills.

Most Polluted

Districts with Highest Pollution

The top 10 most polluted districts in Adrar. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Akabli
0 years lost
2.Bordj Badji Mokhtar
0 years lost
3.Tit
0 years lost
4.Charouine
0 years lost
5.Tsabit
0 years lost
6.Metarfa
0 years lost
7.Deldoul
0 years lost
8.Ouled Aissa
0 years lost
9.Tinerkouk
0 years lost
10.Bouda
0 years lost

Exposure

Population Exposure by Pollution Level

Distribution of population across different PM2.5 pollution levels. The WHO guideline is 5 µg/m³—only populations below this threshold are breathing safe air.

< 5 µg/m³

100%

537K

5-10 µg/m³

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 28 Districts in Adrar

Complete air quality data for every district in Adrar, sorted by population.

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³
Adrar	67K	2.1
Timmimoun	49K	2.4
Ouled Ahmed Temmi	29K	2.1
Zaouiet Kounta	27K	2.1
Aoulef	26K	2.1
Tamekten	25K	2.0
Reggane	24K	2.2
Tinerkouk	23K	2.5
In Zghmir	23K	2.1
Tsabit	21K	2.5
Sali	19K	2.1
Fenoughil	17K	2.1
Aougrout	17K	2.2
Bordj Badji Mokhtar	16K	2.9
Talmine	16K	2.3
Bouda	15K	2.5
Charouine	15K	2.6
Tamantit	14K	2.1
Ouled Said	13K	2.3
Akabli	13K	3.0
Deldoul	13K	2.5
Metarfa	12K	2.5
Tamest	12K	2.1
Ouled Aissa	9K	2.5
Timiaouine	7K	2.4
Ksar Kaddour	6K	2.4
Tit	5K	2.6
Sebaa	3K	2.4

Showing 28 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Adrar is Injurious to Health.