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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 https://w

by jhgb 5y ago

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 https://www.pollution.org.

skohan 5y ago
What's the source of all the lead pollution in central Africa?
- wizardofdos 5y ago
  Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.
- luciacoulter 5y ago
  This WHO Africa brief summarises evidence for sources in Africa: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780869707876.pdf;jsessionid=5C69E8EF5D4BA34A3B7C399C96B31300?sequence=1 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780...
yrro 5y ago
> Saint Lucia: 88,698 Deaths per million Wow. Next highest is Somalia (3,261 dpm)
- skohan 5y ago
  Deaths per pop statistics are often distorted for tiny countries since a few extra deaths can pull the stat by a lot.
  - sokoloff 5y ago
    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.)
C_Don7 5y ago
Our World in Data have a map here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-lead-5micrograms?country=BRA~IRQ~ETH~PAK~VNM~SRB~UGA~ZAF~CHN~IDN~IND~BGD~ECU~NGA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-lead-5micrograms...
- IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y ago
  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.
  - thriftwy 5y ago
    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?
account42 5y ago
This shows exactly the same stats for China and Taiwan which is unlikely to be correct.

by jhgb 5y ago

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 https://www.pollution.org.

skohan 5y ago

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

wizardofdos 5y ago
Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.
luciacoulter 5y ago
This WHO Africa brief summarises evidence for sources in Africa: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780869707876.pdf;jsessionid=5C69E8EF5D4BA34A3B7C399C96B31300?sequence=1 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780...

yrro 5y ago

> Saint Lucia: 88,698 Deaths per million Wow. Next highest is Somalia (3,261 dpm)

skohan 5y ago
Deaths per pop statistics are often distorted for tiny countries since a few extra deaths can pull the stat by a lot.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  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.)

C_Don7 5y ago

Our World in Data have a map here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-lead-5micrograms?country=BRA~IRQ~ETH~PAK~VNM~SRB~UGA~ZAF~CHN~IDN~IND~BGD~ECU~NGA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-lead-5micrograms...

IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y ago
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.
- thriftwy 5y ago
  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?

account42 5y ago

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