[throw_pm23]

The top ten countries by air pollution listed in another comment hardly produce anything the developed world uses, they mostly export natural resources.

[PeterStuer]

That top 10 was for childhood deaths from air pollution per capita and included mostly poor nations with less healthcare.

When you look at consumption based accounting for e.g. CO2, the list is very different, namely for 2022:

!. Singapore 2. United Arab Emirates 3. Qatar 4. Saudi Arabia 5. Kuwait 6. Brunei 7. Malta 8. Belgium 9. United States 10. Oman

source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

[elric]

Very surprised to see Belgium in that list. What gives? Our electricity mix isn't too bad. We don't have much heavy industry. We're not heavy A/C users. Is it our meat consumption?