The chart illustrates the figures for people who were affected by noise pollution in 2007.
Overall, noise pollution affected more people from cities than from rural areas, whereas by night, the damage decreased in both cities and rural areas. Additionally, the majority of people was affected by traffic noise, while the least harmful was industrial 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 reached its peak in daytime, damaging 68 million people, and declining to 48 million at night. Train noise injured 10 and 8 million people during the day and at night respectively, whereas aircraft noise affected 4 million people during the daytime, reducing the number of victims at night by 3 millions. As regards industry, its noise affected 1 million people during the day, with 0.25 million of victims at night.
In contrast, those from rural areas were most affected by traffic noise pollution, accounting for 35 million victims during the day and 24 millions at night. Furthermore, the number of people affected by train noise differed by 2 million victims, with 8 millions during the daytime and 6 millions at nighttime. Regarding aircraft noise, its victims halved from day to night. In contrast, zero people were affected by industrial noise pollution throughout the day and night.