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 Skikda Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Skikda

Skikda faces significant air pollution challenges. 97% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 1.2 million across 38 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 5.6µg/m³. That's 1.1 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 93 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 Skikda met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0.05 years longer.

That's 61K years of life stolen from 1.2 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 Skikda. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Filfila
0.1 years lost
2.El Marsa
0.1 years lost
3.Skikda
0.1 years lost
4.Collo
0.1 years lost
5.Ben Azzouz
0.1 years lost
6.Cheraia
0.1 years lost
7.Zitouna
0.1 years lost
8.Hamadi Krouma
0.1 years lost
9.El Harrouch
0.1 years lost
10.Kanoua
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

12K

5-10 µg/m³

99%

1.2M

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 38 Districts in Skikda

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Skikda	246K	6.3	0.1 years
Azzaba	77K	5.6	0.1 years
Tamalous	69K	5.2	0.0 years
El Harrouch	64K	5.6	0.1 years
Collo	54K	6.2	0.1 years
Salah Bouchaour	45K	5.4	0.0 years
Oum Toub	42K	5.2	0.0 years
Sidi Mezghiche	39K	5.2	0.0 years
Ben Azzouz	39K	5.9	0.1 years
Kerkera	38K	5.4	0.0 years
Ramdane Djamel	38K	5.3	0.0 years
Filfila	36K	6.5	0.1 years
Ain Kechra	34K	5.2	0.0 years
Hamadi Krouma	29K	5.6	0.1 years
Bin El Ouiden	28K	5.2	0.0 years
Beni Oulbane	27K	5.2	0.0 years
Beni Zid	26K	5.5	0.0 years
Es Sebt	24K	5.1	0.0 years
Bekkouche Lakhdar	22K	5.5	0.0 years
Ain Charchar	21K	5.6	0.1 years
Zerdeza	19K	5.1	0.0 years
Emjez Edchich	19K	5.3	0.0 years
Cheraia	16K	5.7	0.1 years
Ouled Attia	15K	5.4	0.0 years
Bouchetata	14K	5.2	0.0 years
Zitouna	14K	5.7	0.1 years
Beni Bechir	14K	5.1	0.0 years
El Hadaiek	13K	5.4	0.0 years
Ain Bouziane	13K	5.2	0.0 years
Djendel Saadi Mohamed	12K	5.6	0.1 years
Ouled Hebbaba	12K	4.8	0.0 years
Oued Zhour	10K	5.4	0.0 years
Kanoua	10K	5.6	0.1 years
El Ghedir	9K	5.3	0.0 years
El Marsa	9K	6.4	0.1 years
Ouldja Boulbalout	6K	5.1	0.0 years
Kheng Maoun	6K	5.3	0.0 years
Ain Zouit	4K	5.4	0.0 years

Showing 38 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Skikda is Injurious to Health.