The chart illustrates the figure for people who were affected by noise pollution in 2007.
Overall, noise pollution affected more people from cities than from rural areas, whereas by the night the damage decreases in both cities and rural areas. Additionally, the majority of people from were affected by the noise of traffic, while the less harmful was industry noise pollution, causing little damage to people from cities and not hurting people from rural areas at all.
More specifically, in cities, traffic noise pollution almost reaches the peak in daytime, damaging 68 people, and declining to 48 people at night. The trains noises injured 10 and 8 people during the day and at night respectively, whereas aircraft noise affects 4 people at daytime, reducing the number of victims at night by 3. As regards for the industry, its noise affected 1 person at day, with 0.25 victims at night.
In contrast, those from rural areas were most affected by the traffic noise pollution, accounting for 35 victims at day and 24 at night. Furthermore, the number of people affected by trains noise differs by 2 victims, with 8 during the day time and 6 at night time. Regarding craft noise, its victims halved from the day to night. In contrast, zero people were affected by the industry noise pollution throughout the day and night.
