Chapter 7 · Health
Roads and air
Interactive 8 min
1,660 people died on Polish roads in 2025, against 3,026 in 2016 [1]. In Kraków, at the Bujaka station, days over the PM10 limit fell from 78 in 2016 to 23 in 2024 [2].
Try this. Each dot is 20 lives. Count how many dots fade between 2016 and 2025 and check it against the two numbers.
Sources: [1] Polish Police: Road accidents in 2025, page 7; [2] City of Kraków: Air quality improvement, July 2025
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Road deaths down 45% since 2016
1,660 people died on Polish roads in 2025, against 3,026 in 2016 and 1,896 a year earlier. Each dot below is 20 lives. The ones that fade are the people who, compared with 2016, came home.
Text version of this interactive
Road deaths down 45% since 2016
1,660 people died on Polish roads in 2025, against 3,026 in 2016 and 1,896 a year earlier. Each dot below is 20 lives. The ones that fade are the people who, compared with 2016, came home.
Kraków can breathe
In the last two years of the city’s July 2025 report, all eight monitoring stations met the annual PM10 limit. At Bujaka, days over the limit fell from 78 in 2016 to 23 in 2024, and in 2024 every benzo[a]pyrene station met its legal limit for the first time.
About this interactive
- Licence
- MIT
- Credits
- © 2026 Mateusz Wojczal. Code: MIT. Text and data: CC BY 4.0. Map: Natural Earth (public domain) through world-atlas (ISC). Fonts: Barlow, Barlow Semi Condensed, JetBrains Mono (SIL OFL 1.1). Every figure links to the institution that published it.
- Source
- https://github.com/ulams-dev/ulams/tree/main/demo-content/poland