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Air Quality Monitoring in Nigeria

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Current Air Quality in Nigeria
95
Moderate
updated on Tuesday, May 10th 2022, 13:00 pm
Past 24 hours Air Quality:
Worst Air Quality
#CityAQI
1
Benin City
152
2
Lagos
144
3
Calabar
117
4
Osogbo
85
5
Abuja
39
Best Air Quality
#CityAQI
1
Maiduguri
37
2
Abuja
39
3
Osogbo
85
4
Calabar
117
5
Lagos
144

Air Quality Monitoring in Nigeria

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There is a good reason to worry about the Air Quality in Nigerai, as it ranks 152th (out of 180 countries) at the Environmental Performance Index for Air Quality.

Furthermore, according to the most recent World Health Organization air pollution database 2016 the air quality in several cities in Nigeria reaches PM2.5 concentrations from unhealthy to hazardous levels:

CityPM2.5 Conc.PM2.5 AQIHealth ImpactYearMeausrement
Aba373
416
Hazardous20091 station, NA
Abakaliki88
168
Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Afikpo72
159
Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Enugu115
182
Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Ile-Ife103
175
Unhealthy20101 station, University campus
Kaduna423
449
Hazardous20132 stations, industrial area
Nnewi57
151
Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Nsukka117
183
Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Onitsha594
500
Hazardous20091 station, NA
Orlu52
142
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups20091 station, NA
Owerri158
208
Very Unhealthy20091 station, NA
Umuahia274
324
Hazardous20091 station, N
(Source: WHO (World Health Organization) Ambient (outdoor) air pollution database 2016)

Public Air Quality Information availability

Unfortunately, there is not any kind of information available from the Federal Ministry of the Environment (www.environment.gov.ng) about Air Quality, whether it relates to a possible monitoring network, or to the actual values recorded by this monitoring network. To our current knowledge, there should most likely not be any kind of automated monitoring network avaiable.

There is unfortunatley, not any information either from the Abuja Environmental Protection Board.

Looking at other Environmental agencies in Nigeria (source),

A schoolboy walks through smoke and fumes emitted from a waste dump in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt
(photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images, courtesy of WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health 2018)

Air Pollution in Nigeria: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
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Known Countries in the World


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fghanistan 🇦🇫 Aland Islands 🇦🇽 Albania 🇦🇱 Algeria 🇩🇿 American Samoa 🇦🇸 Andorra 🇦🇩 Angola 🇦🇴 Anguilla 🇦🇮 Antarctica 🇦🇶 Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 Argentina 🇦🇷 Armenia 🇦🇲 Aruba 🇦🇼 Australia 🇦🇺 Austria 🇦🇹 Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
B
ahamas 🇧🇸 Bahrain 🇧🇭 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Barbados 🇧🇧 Belarus 🇧🇾 Belgium 🇧🇪 Belize 🇧🇿 Benin 🇧🇯 Bermuda 🇧🇲 Bhutan 🇧🇹 Bolivia 🇧🇴 Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba 🇧🇶 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 Botswana 🇧🇼 Bouvet Island 🇧🇻 Brazil 🇧🇷 British Indian Ocean Territory 🇮🇴 British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬 Brunei 🇧🇳 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Burundi 🇧🇮
C
ambodia 🇰🇭 Cameroon 🇨🇲 Canada 🇨🇦 Cape Verde 🇨🇻 Cayman Islands 🇰🇾 Central African Republic 🇨🇫 Chad 🇹🇩 Chile 🇨🇱 China 🇨🇳 Christmas Island 🇨🇽 Cocos Islands 🇨🇨 Colombia 🇨🇴 Comoros 🇰🇲 Cook Islands 🇨🇰 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Croatia 🇭🇷 Cuba 🇨🇺 Curacao 🇨🇼 Cyprus 🇨🇾 Czech Republic 🇨🇿
D
emocratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 Denmark 🇩🇰 Djibouti 🇩🇯 Dominica 🇩🇲 Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
E
ast Timor 🇹🇱 Ecuador 🇪🇨 Egypt 🇪🇬 El Salvador 🇸🇻 Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 Eritrea 🇪🇷 Estonia 🇪🇪 Ethiopia 🇪🇹
F
alkland Islands 🇫🇰 Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 Fiji 🇫🇯 Finland 🇫🇮 France 🇫🇷 French Guiana 🇬🇫 French Polynesia 🇵🇫 French Southern Territories 🇹🇫
G
abon 🇬🇦 Gambia 🇬🇲 Georgia 🇬🇪 Germany 🇩🇪 Ghana 🇬🇭 Gibraltar 🇬🇮 Greece 🇬🇷 Greenland 🇬🇱 Grenada 🇬🇩 Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 Guam 🇬🇺 Guatemala 🇬🇹 Guernsey 🇬🇬 Guinea 🇬🇳 Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 Guyana 🇬🇾
H
aiti 🇭🇹 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 🇭🇲 Honduras 🇭🇳 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Hungary 🇭🇺
I
celand 🇮🇸 India 🇮🇳 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Iran 🇮🇷 Iraq 🇮🇶 Ireland 🇮🇪 Isle of Man 🇮🇲 Israel 🇮🇱 Italy 🇮🇹 Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
J
amaica 🇯🇲 Japan 🇯🇵 Jersey 🇯🇪 Jordan 🇯🇴
K
azakhstan 🇰🇿 Kenya 🇰🇪 Kiribati 🇰🇮 Kosovo 🇽🇰 Kuwait 🇰🇼 Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
L
aos 🇱🇦 Latvia 🇱🇻 Lebanon 🇱🇧 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Liberia 🇱🇷 Libya 🇱🇾 Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Luxembourg 🇱🇺
M
acao 🇲🇴 Macedonia 🇲🇰 Madagascar 🇲🇬 Malawi 🇲🇼 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Maldives 🇲🇻 Mali 🇲🇱 Malta 🇲🇹 Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 Martinique 🇲🇶 Mauritania 🇲🇷 Mauritius 🇲🇺 Mayotte 🇾🇹 Mexico 🇲🇽 Micronesia 🇫🇲 Moldova 🇲🇩 Monaco 🇲🇨 Mongolia 🇲🇳 Montenegro 🇲🇪 Montserrat 🇲🇸 Morocco 🇲🇦 Mozambique 🇲🇿 Myanmar 🇲🇲
N
amibia 🇳🇦 Nauru 🇳🇷 Nepal 🇳🇵 Netherlands 🇳🇱 New Caledonia 🇳🇨 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Niger 🇳🇪 Nigeria 🇳🇬 Niue 🇳🇺 Norfolk Island 🇳🇫 North Korea 🇰🇵 Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵 Norway 🇳🇴
O
man 🇴🇲
P
akistan 🇵🇰 Palau 🇵🇼 Palestinian Territory 🇵🇸 Panama 🇵🇦 Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Paraguay 🇵🇾 Peru 🇵🇪 Philippines 🇵🇭 Pitcairn 🇵🇳 Poland 🇵🇱 Portugal 🇵🇹 Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Q
atar 🇶🇦
R
epublic of the Congo 🇨🇬 Reunion 🇷🇪 Romania 🇷🇴 Russia 🇷🇺 Rwanda 🇷🇼
S
aint Barthelemy 🇧🇱 Saint Helena 🇸🇭 Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 Saint Martin 🇲🇫 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 Samoa 🇼🇸 San Marino 🇸🇲 Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Senegal 🇸🇳 Serbia 🇷🇸 Seychelles 🇸🇨 Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Singapore 🇸🇬 Sint Maarten 🇸🇽 Slovakia 🇸🇰 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 Somalia 🇸🇴 South Africa 🇿🇦 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 🇬🇸 South Korea 🇰🇷 South Sudan 🇸🇸 Spain 🇪🇸 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Sudan 🇸🇩 Suriname 🇸🇷 Svalbard and Jan Mayen 🇸🇯 Swaziland 🇸🇿 Sweden 🇸🇪 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Syria 🇸🇾
T
aiwan 🇹🇼 Tajikistan 🇹🇯 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Thailand 🇹🇭 Togo 🇹🇬 Tokelau 🇹🇰 Tonga 🇹🇴 Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 Tunisia 🇹🇳 Turkey 🇹🇷 Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 Turks and Caicos Islands 🇹🇨 Tuvalu 🇹🇻
U
.S. Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 Uganda 🇺🇬 Ukraine 🇺🇦 United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 United States 🇺🇸 United States Minor Outlying Islands 🇺🇲 Uruguay 🇺🇾 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
V
anuatu 🇻🇺 Vatican 🇻🇦 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Vietnam 🇻🇳
W
allis and Futuna 🇼🇫 Western Sahara 🇪🇭
Y
emen 🇾🇪
Z
ambia 🇿🇲 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

About the Air Quality and Pollution Measurement:

About the Air Quality Levels

AQIAir Pollution LevelHealth ImplicationsCautionary Statement (for PM2.5)
0 - 50 Good Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk None
51 -100 Moderate Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution. Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
101-150 Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected. Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
151-200 Unhealthy Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion
201-300 Very Unhealthy Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected. Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid all outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit outdoor exertion.
300+ Hazardous Health alert: everyone may experience more serious health effects Everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion

To know more about Air Quality and Pollution, check the wikipedia Air Quality topic or the airnow guide to Air Quality and Your Health.

For very useful health advices of Beijing Doctor Richard Saint Cyr MD, check www.myhealthbeijing.com blog.


Usage Notice: All the Air Quality data are unvalidated at the time of publication, and due to quality assurance these data may be amended, without notice, at any time. The World Air Quality Index project has exercised all reasonable skill and care in compiling the contents of this information and under no circumstances will the World Air Quality Index project team or its agents be liable in contract, tort or otherwise for any loss, injury or damage arising directly or indirectly from the supply of this data.



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