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 Mostaganem Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Mostaganem

Mostaganem faces significant air pollution challenges. 28% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 1.0 million across 32 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 4.7µg/m³. That's 0.9 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 78 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 Mostaganem met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0 years longer.

That's 0 years of life stolen from 1.0 million 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 Mostaganem. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Fornaka
0.1 years lost
2.Ouled Maalah
0.1 years lost
3.Hassaine|Beni Yahi
0 years lost
4.Stidia
0 years lost
5.Ain Nouissy
0 years lost
6.Nekmaria
0 years lost
7.Achaacha
0 years lost
8.Sirat
0 years lost
9.Ouled Boughalem
0 years lost
10.Benabdelmalek Ramdane
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

80.2%

808K

5-10 µg/m³

19.8%

200K

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 32 Districts in Mostaganem

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Mostaganem	208K	4.9	0.0 years
Sidi Lakhdar	52K	4.5	0.0 years
Ain Tedles	51K	4.4	0.0 years
Achaacha	50K	5.1	0.0 years
Sidi Ali	49K	4.9	0.0 years
Bouguirat	44K	4.6	0.0 years
Kheiredine	36K	4.2	0.0 years
Hassi Mameche	35K	4.6	0.0 years
Sour	35K	4.5	0.0 years
Sayada	32K	4.6	0.0 years
Mesra	31K	4.4	0.0 years
Sirat	28K	5.1	0.0 years
Hadjadj	27K	4.6	0.0 years
Oued El Kheir	25K	4.2	0.0 years
Mansourah	24K	4.0	0.0 years
Mezghrane	23K	5.0	0.0 years
Fornaka	23K	6.1	0.1 years
Souaflia	21K	4.0	0.0 years
Benabdelmalek Ramdane	20K	5.0	0.0 years
Ouled Boughalem	20K	5.0	0.0 years
Khadra	20K	4.8	0.0 years
Safsaf	19K	4.2	0.0 years
Ain Nouissy	19K	5.2	0.0 years
Stidia	18K	5.3	0.0 years
Ain Sidi Cherif	15K	4.6	0.0 years
Ouled Maalah	15K	5.7	0.1 years
Nekmaria	14K	5.1	0.0 years
Hassaine\|Beni Yahi	13K	5.5	0.0 years
Sidi Belattar	11K	4.8	0.0 years
Touahria	10K	4.3	0.0 years
Tazgait	9K	4.8	0.0 years
Ain Boudinar	8K	4.6	0.0 years

Showing 32 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Mostaganem is Injurious to Health.