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 ## 4% of global deaths are attributed to indoor air pollution Indoor air pollution was attributed to an estimated 2.3 million deaths in the latest year. This means that indoor air pollution was responsible for 4% of global deaths. In the map here we see the share of annual deaths attributed to indoor air pollution across the world. When we compare the share of deaths attributed to indoor air pollution either over time or between countries, we are not only comparing the extent of indoor air pollution, but its severity _in the context_ of other risk factors for death. Indoor air pollution's share does not only depend on how many die prematurely from it, but what else people are dying from and how this is changing. When we look at the share dying from indoor air pollution, figures are high across the lowest-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not markedly different from countries across Asia or Latin America. There, the severity of indoor air pollution – expressed as the share of deaths – has been masked by the role of other risk factors at low-incomes, such as low access to [safe water](https://owid.cloud/water-access), poor [sanitation](https://owid.cloud/sanitation) and unsafe sex which is a risk factor for [HIV/AIDS](https://owid.cloud/hiv-aids). <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-deaths-indoor-pollution"/> ## Death rates are highest across low income countries Death rates from indoor air pollution give us an accurate comparison of differences in its mortality impacts between countries and over time. In contrast to the share of deaths that we studied before, death rates are not influenced by how other causes or risk factors for death are changing. In this map we see death rates from indoor air pollution across the world. Death rates measure the number of deaths per 100,000 people in a given country or region. What becomes clear is the large differences in death rates between countries: rates are high in lower-income countries, particularly across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Compare these rates with those across high-income countries: across North America rates are below 0.1 deaths per 100,000. That’s a greater than 1000-fold difference. The issue of indoor air pollution therefore has a clear economic split: it is a problem that has almost been entirely eliminated across high-income countries, but remains a large environmental and health problem at lower incomes. We see this relationship clearly when we plot death rates versus income, as shown [**here**](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-indoor-air-pollution-vs-gdp-per-capita). There is a strong negative relationship: death rates decline as countries get richer. This is also true when [make this comparison](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-indoor-air-pollution-vs-share-of-population-in-absolute-poverty) between extreme poverty rates and pollution effects. <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-by-source-from-indoor-air-pollution"/> 
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