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 Tissemsilt Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Tissemsilt

Tissemsilt faces significant air pollution challenges. 5% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 402 thousand across 22 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 4.6µg/m³. That's 0.9 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 76 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 Tissemsilt met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0 years longer.

That's 0 years of life stolen from 402 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 Tissemsilt. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Layoune
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2.Khemisti
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3.Tissemsilt
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4.Ouled Bessem
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5.Ammari
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6.Maacem
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7.Sidi Abed
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8.Beni Lahcene
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9.Sidi Lantri
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10.Beni Chaib
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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

92.2%

371K

5-10 µg/m³

7.8%

31K

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 22 Districts in Tissemsilt

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³
Tissemsilt	92K	4.8
Theniet El Had	44K	4.1
Lardjem	36K	4.4
Khemisti	31K	5.0
Layoune	31K	5.3
Bordj Bounaama	28K	4.4
Ouled Bessem	14K	4.7
Bordj El Emir Abdelkader	14K	4.3
Bou Caid	14K	4.1
Lazharia	13K	3.9
Ammari	11K	4.7
Tamelaht	11K	4.4
Sidi Slimane	11K	4.3
Sidi Abed	8K	4.7
Sidi Lantri	8K	4.5
Maacem	7K	4.7
Beni Lahcene	7K	4.5
Sidi Boutouchent	6K	4.3
Beni Chaib	5K	4.4
Melaab	5K	4.2
Larbaa	4K	4.0
El Youssoufia	3K	4.0

Showing 22 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Tissemsilt is Injurious to Health.