Number of people in Europe affected by four different kinds of noise pollution in 2007.
Overall, there are four types of noise pollution and these are traffic, trains, aircraft, and industry. Additionally, in both urban and rural areas the traffic is the highest and the industry is the lowest ones among others.
It is clear that noise disturbance of traffic has a negative impact in the number of individuals after dark reached to 68millions but at night this figure went down to 48millions. Meanwhile, trains got much lower negative effect by local people compared to the traffic, making it to 10millions in daytime and 8millions after sunset. During diurnal hours, the number of inhabitants who have adverse effects about aircraft reached to 4millions and during nocturnal hours these numbers decreased to only 1million. In the final part of noise pollution of cities is industry, at sunrise its figure reached to 1million after nocturnal hours and at night it is only 0,25million.
However, villages have seen reduced numbers in each type of excessive noise. At first, the traffic faced much more reduction in the number of affected residences by environmental noise reaching to 35millions and 24millions after sunset. Secondly, trains also saw minimizing making it to 8millions and 6millions in daytime and at night, respectively. Aircraft gained 2millions affected people after dark and 1millions during nocturnal hours. At the end, industry in countryside got 0million over 24-hour period.