. 2024 May 30;69:1606909. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606909

TABLE 1.

Descriptive summary by city (Latin America, 2009–2018).

City (country)	Study period	Deaths	Mean (standard Deviation)			Percentage of days PM₁₀ > 15 $μ g / m^{3}$ (%)	Percentage of days PM_2.5 > 5 $μ g / m^{3}$ (%)
City (country)	Study period	Deaths	Temperature ( $℃$ )	PM₁₀ ( $μ g / m^{3}$ )	PM_2.5 ( $μ g / m^{3}$ )	Percentage of days PM₁₀ > 15 $μ g / m^{3}$ (%)	Percentage of days PM_2.5 > 5 $μ g / m^{3}$ (%)
Bogota (Colombia)	2009–2013	142,151	14.1 (0.9)	53.2 (15.8)	-	100	-
Buenos Aires (Argentina)	2009–2018	399,592	18.3 (5.8)	29.6 (15.3)	-	94.3	-
Guatemala City (Guatemala)	2010–2015	48,170	19.3 (1.5)	48.0 (26.3)	-	98.2	-
Lima (Peru)	2010–2014	183,105	19.2 (2.4)	77.9 (26.1)	-	100	-
Mexico City (Mexico)	2009–2014	610,387	16.5 (2.5)	51.2 (20.4)	24.0 (9.9)	99.3	100
Montevideo (Uruguay)	2014–2016	92,252	18.6 (5.4)	27.4 (11.2)	8.6 (8.0)	91.4	67.1
Quito (Ecuador)	2014–2018	44,533	15.5 (1.1)	47.7 (17.3)	16.7 (5.3)	98.7	100
Santiago (Chile)	2009–2018	380,102	15.0 (5.1)	69.8 (32.1)	27.4 (15.5)	99.0	99.6
Sao Paulo (Brazil)	2010–2018	682,147	21.5 (3.5)	36.3 (18.0)	20.8 (10.9)	95.2	99.6

PM₁₀: Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 $μ m$ or less.

PM_2.5: Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 $μ m$ or less.