Inhabitants in most EU capital cities satisfied with air quality, noise level

In most capital cities of the European Union (EU), inhabitants are generally satisfied with both the quality of the air and the noise level in 2015, according to data issued by Eurostat, the EU statistical office, on Friday.

However, results did show significant disparities between capital cities in the EU, with levels of satisfaction regarding air quality ranging from 22 percent to 88 percent and for noise levels from 31 percent to 82 percent.

Specifically, among EU capital cities in 2015, at least three-quarters of inhabitants were very or rather satisfied with the quality of the air in their city in Dublin, Vienna and Helsinki, followed by Luxembourg, Stockholm, Ljubljana and Tallinn.

In contrast, the lowest shares of the resident population satisfied with the quality of the air were observed in Bucharest, Sofia, Paris, Madrid and Rome.

Regarding the level of noise perceived, Dublin registered the highest proportion of the population very or rather satisfied, ahead of Helsinki, Luxembourg, Vienna, Riga, Vilnius and London.

Conversely, Bucharest recorded the lowest share of people globally satisfied with the noise level in the city, followed by Sofia, Athens, Madrid, Rome and Valletta as well as Warsaw. Endit