Air pollution threatens the health of 429 thousand people across 5 regions in Northern Cyprus. The average PM2.5 level is 12.2 µg/m³—2.4× higher than the WHO guideline.
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Northern Cyprus faces significant air pollution challenges. 100% of states exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 429 thousand across 5 states at risk.
The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 12.2µg/m³. That's 2.4 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.
This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 202 cigarettes in a year.
Every person in Northern Cyprus is losing 0.71 years of their life to air pollution. This isn't just a statistic—it's grandparents who won't see their grandchildren graduate. Parents missing birthdays. Lives cut short. Breathing kills.
These stolen years come from diseases you know—COPD that makes every breath a struggle, lung cancer that turns healthy tissue deadly, heart attacks that strike without warning, strokes that change everything in an instant. Air pollution doesn't just kill. It damages your body from the inside, every single day.
Across Northern Cyprus, 305K years of life hang in the balance. That's the collective future being taken from 429 thousand people—simply by breathing.
The top 5 most polluted regions in Northern Cyprus by PM2.5 levels. These regions face the greatest health burden from air pollution.