The bar chart shows how many people in Europe were affected by four different types of noise pollution in day and night I cities and rural areas in 2007.
Overall, the number of people affected by noise pollution during the day was higher than that of night. Moreover, city dwellers were affected more by noise pollution than people lived in rural. It is also clear that the amount of noise pollution caused by traffic was the highest in both surveyed areas.
The two major noise sources were traffic and trains. The number of people who were affected by noise pollution from traffic was about 64 million residents during the day and 48 million at night in cities, while the numbers being impacted by this noise in rural areas were half as high, at 34 million in the day and 24 million ar night. The disparity between urban and rural demographics was far smaller in terms of train noise pollution. Specifically, 10 and 8 millions people living in cities was reported ly disturbed by noise from trains in the daytime and at night. Respectively this was the case of for 8 and 6 million rural inhabitants.
People who were affected by aircraft and industry were much lower than noise pollution caused by train and traffic, about 4 million in day and 1 million at night of city dwellers were influenced by aircraft, which was twofold compared to people lived in rural. The noise pollution by industry was only slightly affected in the city, moreover, it wasn’t influenced in rural areas.