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.

Russia's Ivanovo Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Ivanovo

Ivanovo faces significant air pollution challenges. 100% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 1.0 million across 28 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 8µg/m³. That's 1.6 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 133 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 Ivanovo met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0.28 years longer.

That's 281K 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 Ivanovo. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Teykovskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
2.Gavrilovo-Posadskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
3.Il’inskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
4.Teykovo
0.3 years lost
5.Komsomol’skiy rayon
0.3 years lost
6.Ivanovo
0.3 years lost
7.Ivanovskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
8.Lezhnevskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
9.Savinskiy rayon
0.3 years lost
10.Furmanovskiy rayon
0.3 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

5-10 µg/m³

100%

1.0M

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 28 Districts in Ivanovo

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Ivanovskiy rayon	235K	8.3	0.3 years
Ivanovo	203K	8.3	0.3 years
Kineshemskiy rayon	75K	7.2	0.2 years
Shuyskiy rayon	52K	7.8	0.3 years
Teykovskiy rayon	47K	8.5	0.3 years
Furmanovskiy rayon	40K	8.1	0.3 years
Rodnikovskiy rayon	34K	7.6	0.3 years
Kineshema	32K	7.4	0.2 years
Vichugskiy rayon	30K	7.5	0.2 years
Yuzhskiy rayon	26K	7.8	0.3 years
Shuya	24K	7.8	0.3 years
Vichuga	24K	7.4	0.2 years
Privolzhskiy rayon	23K	7.8	0.3 years
Komsomol’skiy rayon	18K	8.4	0.3 years
Yur’evskiy rayon	16K	6.8	0.2 years
Sokol’skiy rayon	15K	6.8	0.2 years
Gavrilovo-Posadskiy rayon	14K	8.5	0.3 years
Savinskiy rayon	14K	8.1	0.3 years
Lezhnevskiy rayon	14K	8.3	0.3 years
Zavolzhskiy rayon	13K	7.4	0.2 years
Puchezhskiy rayon	12K	6.8	0.2 years
Palekhskiy rayon	10K	7.7	0.3 years
Lukhskiy rayon	9K	6.9	0.2 years
Il’inskiy rayon	8K	8.5	0.3 years
Pestyakovskiy rayon	7K	7.1	0.2 years
Vernelandekhovskiy rayon	5K	7.0	0.2 years
Furmanov	2K	8.0	0.3 years
Teykovo	48	8.5	0.3 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 Ivanovo is Injurious to Health.