PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure
Population-weighted exposure to ambient PM2.5 pollution - the average level of exposure of a nation's population to concentrations of suspended particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in aerodynamic diameter, which are capable of penetrating deep into the respiratory tract and causing severe health damage - for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Exposure is calculated by weighting mean annual concentrations of PM2.5 by population in both urban and rural areas. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) air-pollution exposure estimates (IHME). India runs an order of magnitude above the low-exposure panel members throughout (Canada, Japan, USA). The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2023 in the live vintage (2024-2025 are null upstream - a genuine GBD reporting lag, never interpolated). Units: micrograms per cubic meter.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- environment
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: micrograms per cubic meter) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 8.823 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 8.953 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 8.748 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 8.854 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 8.101 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 8.596 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 8.183 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 7.963 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 7.689 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 7.366 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93
Measured- Completeness
- 98.1%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 7.7% | 214 | 6.03 → 56.68median 12.99 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93 · sha256 bcaab231ff93…
208 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/pm25_air_pollution_exposure" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/pm25_air_pollution_exposure").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/pm25_air_pollution_exposure
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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World Bank. (2026). PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure [Data set, snapshot 20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93, sha256 bcaab231ff93]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/pm25_air_pollution_exposure?snapshot=20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93
@misc{dz_world_bank_pm25_air_pollution_exposure_bcaab231,
title = {{PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/pm25_air_pollution_exposure?snapshot=20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T180630Z-bcaab231ff93, sha256 bcaab231ff93efa0f07743ba1d7cd8c73ce21be9fec1303a45ccd7f39ac45154; accessed 2026-09-24}
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