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.

Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivs'k Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Ivano-Frankivs'k

Ivano-Frankivs'k faces significant air pollution challenges. 100% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 1.4 million across 16 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 12.4µg/m³. That's 2.5 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 206 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 Ivano-Frankivs'k met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0.72 years longer.

That's 1.0M years of life stolen from 1.4 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 Ivano-Frankivs'k. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Kalus'kyi
0.8 years lost
2.Bohorodchans'kyi
0.8 years lost
3.Rozhniativs'kyi
0.8 years lost
4.Ivano-Frankivs'ka
0.8 years lost
5.Tysmenyts'kyi
0.8 years lost
6.Dolyns'kyi
0.7 years lost
7.Nadvirnians'kyi
0.7 years lost
8.Halyts'kyi
0.7 years lost
9.Verkhovyns'kyi
0.7 years lost
10.Iaremchans'ka
0.7 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

10-15 µg/m³

100%

1.4M

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 16 Districts in Ivano-Frankivs'k

Complete air quality data for every district in Ivano-Frankivs'k, sorted by population.

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Ivano-Frankivs'ka	183K	13.0	0.8 years
Kolomyis'kyi	168K	11.9	0.7 years
Tysmenyts'kyi	150K	12.8	0.8 years
Kalus'kyi	129K	13.6	0.8 years
Nadvirnians'kyi	126K	12.6	0.7 years
Dolyns'kyi	93K	12.6	0.7 years
Kosivs'kyi	92K	11.7	0.7 years
Rozhniativs'kyi	77K	13.2	0.8 years
Bohorodchans'kyi	69K	13.3	0.8 years
Sniatyns'kyi	66K	11.1	0.6 years
Halyts'kyi	62K	12.3	0.7 years
Horodenkivs'kyi	57K	10.6	0.5 years
Tlumats'kyi	52K	11.6	0.6 years
Rohatyns'kyi	46K	11.6	0.6 years
Verkhovyns'kyi	31K	12.1	0.7 years
Iaremchans'ka	8K	12.1	0.7 years

Showing 16 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Ivano-Frankivs'k is Injurious to Health.