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If anyone (like me) is looking for a map (which seems to be missing from the article), the per-country data is apparently on https://www.pollution.org.



This map is very bad since

1. Most countries have "no data"

2. Those that do show an absolute number instead of a percentage, which makes the data essentially useless.


3. Many countries have this number so large that it sounds like "all of them" (How many children there are in China compared to the 106 mln quoted, and of what age?) and one would expect more granularity at this point. Did they actually test 105 mln Chinese children? Does Serbia even have 900k children in the whole country?


What's the source of all the lead pollution in central Africa?


This WHO Africa brief summarises evidence for sources in Africa: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780...


Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.


> Saint Lucia: 88,698 Deaths per million

Wow. Next highest is Somalia (3,261 dpm)


Deaths per pop statistics are often distorted for tiny countries since a few extra deaths can pull the stat by a lot.


While true, the figure above is almost 9% of the deaths. If true, that’s well beyond “a few extra deaths”. (I am somewhat skeptical that it’s a correct figure, or at a minimum if correct, that it carries 5 significant digits of precision.)


This shows exactly the same stats for China and Taiwan which is unlikely to be correct.




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