Air pollution threatens the health of 92 thousand people across 6 regions in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The average PM2.5 level is 2.5 Āµg/mĀ³, within the WHO guideline of 5 Āµg/mĀ³.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines faces significant air pollution challenges. 0% of states exceed the WHO guideline for clean air. This is putting 92 thousand across 6 states at risk.
The average PM2.5 over 2023 was 2.5Āµg/mĀ³. That's 0.5 times the WHO guideline for clean air of 5Āµg/mĀ³.
This is equivalent of everybody, including children, smoking about 41 cigarettes in a year.
Every person in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is losing 0 years of their life to air pollution. This isn't just a statisticāit's grandparents who won't see their grandchildren graduate. Parents missing birthdays. Lives cut short. Breathing kills.
These stolen years come from diseases you knowāCOPD 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 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 0 years of life hang in the balance. That's the collective future being taken from 92 thousand peopleāsimply by breathing.
The top 6 most polluted regions in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by PM2.5 levels. These regions face the greatest health burden from air pollution.
Distribution of population across different PM2.5 pollution levels. The WHO guideline is 5 Āµg/mĀ³āonly populations below this threshold are breathing safe air.
Browse detailed air quality data for every region in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.