Based on a ranking of 375 European cities, Denmark cannot get a single city in the top 10 when it comes to air quality.
When it comes to air quality, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA), there is no better place to be than Uppsala, Sweden.
At least not when you take into account the 375 cities from which the EEA has data. And things are going well in Sweden, because number two on the list is Umeå.
Specifically, the EEA looks at the amount of small particles (PM2.5) in the air, and over the past year data has been collected from 500 measuring points in Europe.
The World Health Organization WHO sets out the health guidelines regarding air pollution with PM2.5, according to which the EEA has classified the cities. The recommended limit is 5 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meters of air.
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But there are actually only 13 cities that can live up to that limit level. In addition to Uppsala and Umeå, these are cities such as Reykjavik in Iceland, Tallinn in Estonia, Sweden's capital Stockholm and Finland's ditto Helsinki.
There are no Danish cities at all. So at the positive end of the scale. In fact, we have to pass 35 cities in countries such as France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands to find Aalborg in 36th place. Here there are 7 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meters of air.
Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, is as far down as number 71. Aarhus is number 60. And it doesn't get any better because, according to the EAA, PM2.5 is the air pollutant that has the biggest negative health effect on society.
At EU level, there is a plan that particle pollution must be so small or modest that it does not pose a risk to public health.
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