What are Key Factors Driving the Growth of Air Quality Monitoring Market?

Posted by Pramod Arya on December 30th, 2021

The rising urbanization and industrialization in several countries is massively pushing up the air pollution levels. As per the findings of the World Health Organization (WHO), “more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas.” Furthermore, the organization estimates that this share would rise to 70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization is usually associated with surging construction activities, rapid industrialization, and rising road traffic, which are some of the biggest emitters of hazardous and toxic gases.

Due to the increasing emission of such gases into the atmosphere, the air quality levels in major cities and towns are rapidly degrading. This is, in turn, affecting the health of people and augmenting the incidence of several fatal diseases including various cardiovascular ailments and lung disorders. As per many reports, there has been a sharp rise in the number of deaths caused due to air pollution in the Asian countries over the last two decades.

Air pollution claimed the lives of 3.4 million people in Asia in 1990, while in 2016, this number increased to 4.2 million. In Asia, South Asia recorded the highest number of deaths because of air pollution in 2016. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), “out of 8.8 million deaths caused by all cancer types, 1.7 million deaths occurred due to lung cancer in 2015, globally.” This is making air quality monitoring extremely essential in today’s world.

Depending on sampling method, the air quality monitoring market is divided into manual, continuous, intermittent, and passive air quality monitoring. Amongst these, the continuous sampling method division is predicted to register huge growth in the market in the upcoming years. This is a high-resolution technique that provides a continuous record of the contaminant levels. This method also provides a high degree of accuracy in air quality measurement and can function over long periods of time without requiring any operator intervention.

Hence, it can be said with surety that the demand for air quality monitoring systems will swell all over the world and especially in the Asian countries in the years to come, primarily because of the growing pollution levels, on account of the rising industrialization, urbanization, and increasing construction activities, all around the world.