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 Kirovohrad Air Pollution Report

Overview

Air Pollution in Kirovohrad

Kirovohrad faces significant air pollution challenges. 100% of districts exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 933 thousand across 21 districts at risk.

The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 8.4µg/m³. That's 1.7 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5µg/m³.

This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 139 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 Kirovohrad met the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, the average person would live 0.32 years longer.

That's 298K years of life stolen from 933 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 Kirovohrad. These areas face the greatest health burden from air pollution.

1.Haivorons'kyi
0.4 years lost
2.Petrivs'kyi
0.4 years lost
3.Svitlovods'kyi
0.4 years lost
4.Dolyns'kyi
0.4 years lost
5.Ul'ianovs'kyi
0.4 years lost
6.Holovanivs'kyi
0.3 years lost
7.Oleksandriis'kyi
0.3 years lost
8.Znamians'kyi
0.3 years lost
9.Onufri‹vs'kyi
0.3 years lost
10.Novoarkhanhel's'kyi
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%

933K

10-15 µg/m³

15-25 µg/m³

25-35 µg/m³

> 35 µg/m³

Districts

All 21 Districts in Kirovohrad

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

District	Population	PM2.5 µg/m³	Years Lost
Kirovohrads'kyi	265K	8.3	0.3 years
Oleksandriis'kyi	117K	8.4	0.3 years
Svitlovods'kyi	58K	8.9	0.4 years
Znamians'kyi	53K	8.3	0.3 years
Malovyskivs'kyi	43K	8.0	0.3 years
Novoukra‹ns'kyi	39K	8.1	0.3 years
Petrivs'kyi	36K	8.9	0.4 years
Dolyns'kyi	35K	8.7	0.4 years
Dobrovelychkivs'kyi	34K	8.1	0.3 years
Haivorons'kyi	32K	9.1	0.4 years
Holovanivs'kyi	31K	8.5	0.3 years
Oleksandrivs'kyi	27K	8.2	0.3 years
Novomyrhorods'kyi	25K	8.2	0.3 years
Bobrynets'kyi	24K	8.0	0.3 years
Novoarkhanhel's'kyi	23K	8.3	0.3 years
Ul'ianovs'kyi	22K	8.6	0.4 years
Novhorodkivs'kyi	15K	8.2	0.3 years
Onufri‹vs'kyi	15K	8.3	0.3 years
Kompani‹vs'kyi	14K	8.1	0.3 years
Vil'shans'kyi	13K	8.3	0.3 years
Ustynivs'kyi	13K	8.3	0.3 years

Showing 21 districts, sorted by population (largest first). PM2.5 values are for 2023. Years lost calculated against WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.

Breathing in Kirovohrad is Injurious to Health.