BY Azlan Othman
Brunei Darussalam is the second lowest polluted country in the world with particulate matter (PM) 2.5 mean annual exposure and just 5.9 microgrammes per cubic metre (g/m3), according to university of Oxford’s Our World in Data platform.
The lowest polluted country is Finland with (5.86g/m3) and three deaths per 100,000. This is followed by the Sultanate (5.96g/m3), Sweden (6.18g/m3), Canada (6.43g/m3) and Iceland (6.48g/m3).
PM2.5 refers to tiny particles that are less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter, about one ten thousandth of an inch.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin