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 Jijel Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Jijel

Jijel faces significant air pollution challenges. 86% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 831 thousand across 28 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 5.7µg/m³. That's 1.1 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 95 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 Jijel met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0.06 years longer.

That's 50K years of life stolen from 831 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 Jijel. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.El Kennar Nouchfi
0.1 years lost
2.Emir Abdelkader
0.1 years lost
3.Jijel
0.1 years lost
4.Taher
0.1 years lost
5.Kheir Oued Adjoul
0.1 years lost
6.Sidi Abdelaziz
0.1 years lost
7.Kouas
0.1 years lost
8.Chekfa
0.1 years lost
9.Djemaa Beni Habibi
0.1 years lost
10.El Milia
0.1 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

3.5%

29K

5-10 µg/m³

96.5%

802K

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 28 Districts in Jijel

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Jijel	150K	6.3	0.1 years
Taher	107K	6.2	0.1 years
El Milia	104K	5.5	0.1 years
Emir Abdelkader	39K	6.3	0.1 years
Chekfa	36K	5.8	0.1 years
Kouas	32K	5.9	0.1 years
Sidi Marouf	30K	5.4	0.0 years
El Ancer	28K	5.4	0.0 years
Ouled Yahia Khadrouche	26K	5.1	0.0 years
Djemila	23K	5.1	0.0 years
Texenna	22K	5.0	0.0 years
El Kennar Nouchfi	22K	6.4	0.1 years
Settara	21K	5.2	0.0 years
Boussif Ouled Askeur	20K	4.8	0.0 years
Djemaa Beni Habibi	19K	5.6	0.1 years
El Aouana	18K	5.4	0.0 years
Bouraoui Belhadef	17K	5.1	0.0 years
Boudria Beniyadjis	16K	5.0	0.0 years
Ouled Rabah	15K	5.1	0.0 years
Ziama Mansouria	14K	5.3	0.0 years
Chahna	14K	5.1	0.0 years
Sidi Abdelaziz	13K	5.9	0.1 years
Oudjana	11K	5.5	0.0 years
Ghebala	8K	5.1	0.0 years
Bordj Tahar	7K	5.0	0.0 years
Kheir Oued Adjoul	7K	6.0	0.1 years
Erraguene	7K	4.9	0.0 years
Selma Benziada	2K	4.8	0.0 years

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 Jijel is Injurious to Health.