EU Air Pollution Status: Threat Remains Despite Decline

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Air pollution from fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) will kill 239,000 people in the European Union (EU) in 2022, a 5 percent year-on-year decline, with the highest number of deaths occurring in Italy, Poland, and Germany, the French media reported Dec. 10. While deaths fell by 45 percent overall between 2005 and 2022, air pollution is still a major environmental threat to the health of Europeans.