Alarm: How many years of life are Albanians cut short by polluted air?

Air pollution is the greatest threat to environmental health for humans, but how does it translate?

Researchers have compiled a map based on new findings that show, depending on where you live, how many years of life you're getting polluted air.

According to these data, Albanians would live 0.23 years of life more if our country were to reduce air pollution in line with WHO standards.

Of the other countries in the region, it seems that Albania is risking residents less lives in terms of pollution, while in Kosovo we would have 0.37 lives/person, Serbia 0.73 lives/person, Macedonia 0.19 lives and Montenegro 0.26 lives.

Scientists concluded that life expectancy decreases by about seven months with every 1058g/m3 additional PM10 in the air.

“The results show cases of long-term exposure to polluted air causes a significant reduction of life expectancy”, said Michael Greenstone, author of publication and director of the Institute of Energy Policy (EPIC) at the University of Chicago.

From a report released a year ago, our country resulted in an area where pollution was considerable, taking into consideration the measurements made to compile the WHO index.