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 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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However
, 1
million
city residents experienced industrial
noise
pollution
in the daytime, four times the number affected at
night
.

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