The charts illustrate the number of people who were affected by 4 types of noise pollution in day and night in cities and rural areas in 2007.
The bar charts compare how many
people
in urban and rural areas
were affected by noise
pollution
from four sources during daytime and nighttime in 2007.
Overall
, it is clear that
more people
in cities
experienced all types of noise
pollution
compared with rural areas
. In both charts, traffic was the main source of noise
pollution
at all times.
Daytime noise
from traffic affected 64 million
people
in cities
and 34 million
in rural areas
. At night
, traffic noise
affected 48 million
city residents, double the figure for rural areas
. Noise
pollution
caused by trains affected slightly more people
in cities
compared with rural areas
, at 10 million
and 8 million
respectively during the daytime, and 8 million
and 6 million
respectively at night
.
The remaining two sources of noise
pollution
were less significant. In cities
, daytime aircraft noise
affected 4 million
people
and half that number in rural areas
. The figure at night
for cities
and rural areas
was 1 million
. Those living in rural areas
were not affected by noise
from industry
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the industry
However
, 1 million
city residents experienced industrial noise
pollution
in the daytime, four times the number affected at night
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