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. 2017 Mar 14;356:j667. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j667

Table 1.

Summary statistics

City Mean (SD) values daily
PM10 (µg/m3) All cause deaths Deaths due to cardiorespiratory diseases
Urumqi 136.0 (74.2) 5.2 (2.4) 2.6 (1.7)
Beijing 113.4 (71.5) 21.8 (5.4) 12.0 (4.0)
Chengdou 109.5 (57.2) 7.1 (2.9) 3.4 (2.0)
Zaozhuang 108.9 (53.0) 2.4 (1.6) 1.3 (1.2)
Zhengzhou 108.5 (51.1) 6.3 (3.5) 3.2 (2.3)
Xining 108.3 (55.8) 10.0 (4.8) 4.0 (2.7)
Nanjing 104.4 (53.4) 9.1 (3.3) 5.0 (2.6)
Anshan 102.7 (45.9) 11.9 (3.9) 7.3 (2.9)
Wuhan 101.8 (54.3) 12.2 (4.1) 6.4 (3.0)
Tianjin 101.4 (53.9) 3.7 (2.6) 2.1 (1.7)
Tongchuan 100.9 (44.6) 3.0 (1.9) 1.6 (1.4)
Shenyang 100.7 (49.6) 19.4 (5.4) 10.3 (3.6)
Harbin 100.2 (47.7) 6.5 (2.8) 3.7 (2.0)
Yinchuan 98.3 (49.6) 4.8 (2.6) 2.8 (2.0)
Panzhihua 97.8 (31.1) 5.5 (2.5) 2.7 (1.8)
Maanshan 97.3 (37.9) 3.8 (2.0) 1.7 (1.4)
Xuzhou 97.0 (49.7) 21.8 (5.4) 12.0 (4.0)
Chongqing 96.5 (49.4) 3.3 (2.0) 1.8 (1.4)
Hangzhou 92.5 (47.1) 6.5 (3.0) 2.9 (1.9)
Yichang 92.3 (42.3) 6.0 (2.8) 2.5 (1.7)
Taiyuan 92.2 (53.4) 6.5 (3.3) 3.2 (2.1)
Changde 92.1 (43.7) 2.5 (1.6) 1.3 (1.1)
Changchun 89.9 (45.6) 7.6 (2.8) 4.2 (2.1)
Qingdao 89.8 (49.3) 21.8 (5.4) 12.0 (4.0)
Nanchang 89.8 (42.0) 3.4 (2.2) 2.1 (1.8)
Tangshan 88.7 (51.9) 10.6 (3.6) 5.1 (2.7)
Changsha 86.0 (44.4) 6.0 (2.6) 3.1 (1.9)
Suzhou 84.9 (45.7) 7.3 (3.3) 3.5 (2.2)
Zunyi 83.6 (30.4) 7.9 (3.3) 4.5 (2.4)
Hohhot 82.2 (44.9) 4.0 (2.7) 2.1 (1.7)
Liuzhou 80.0 (35.0) 5.0 (2.5) 2.0 (1.5)
Qiqihar 75.9 (37.2) 21.8 (5.4) 12.0 (4.0)
Shanghai 75.1 (47.6) 2.8 (1.8) 1.7 (1.4)
Guilin 72.4 (38.7) 1.8 (1.4) 0.8 (0.9)
Yantai 71.4 (38.9) 9.5 (3.2) 4.6 (2.2)
Yuxi 70.4 (24.7) 7.1 (3.1) 3.7 (2.1)
Guangzhou 69.3 (31.9) 19.2 (5.6) 9.1 (3.7)
Qinhuangdao 66.9 (35.2) 5.7 (2.6) 2.7 (1.6)
All cities 92.9 (46.3) 8.6 (6.9) 4.4 (4.1)

Source: Ministry of Environmental Protection of China and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.