Italy holds the record
As the Italian statistical institute ISTAT tells us, the quality of the air has improved in our cities but, according to the 2015 report on the Quality of the air in Europe by the European Environmental Agency (EEA), atmospheric pollutions continues to be responsible for about 500,000 early deaths in Europe.
The document studies the exposure to various pollutants and provides a snapshot of the situation (based on data from 2012 from the official monitoring stations): the majority of the inhabitants of the cities continues to be exposed to levels of pollutants that the World Health Organization (WHO) does not consider safe.
https://ecomobile.it/index.php/en/news/151-ambiente-en/932-air-pollution-is-the-main-environmental-health-risk-factor-in-europe#sigProId15f94a533b
Those in its sights, identified as the most harmful for health, are the particulate (PM), the tropospheric ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Estimates of the impact on health associated with long-term exposure to PM2.5 (microscopic fine dust) shows that it is responsible for 432,000 untimely deaths; for NO2 and O3 the figures are respectively about 75,000 and 17,000 early death. Leading the classification of the 28 countries in the European Union is Italy, with 84,400 early deaths. 58,500 are attributed to microscopic dust particles (the same for Germany, followed by Poland and France), 21,500 to nitrogen dioxide and 3,300 to ozone.
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