{"id":1208083,"name":"Blood lead level in children","unit":"µg/dL","description":"Mean lead concentrations in the blood of children aged 0 to 14 years old.","createdAt":"2026-03-10T10:33:55.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-03-10T10:33:55.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2019-2019","datasetId":7763,"shortUnit":"µg/dL","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"blood_lead_level_in_children","catalogPath":"grapher/health/2021-01-01/lead_blood_concentrations_in_lmic__ericson_et_al__2021/lead_blood_concentrations_in_lmic__ericson_et_al__2021#blood_lead_level_in_children","type":"float","datasetName":"Lead blood concentrations in LMIC (Ericson et al. 2021)","datasetVersion":"2021-01-01","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Mean lead concentrations in the blood of children","unit":"µg/dL","shortUnit":"µg/dL"},"schemaVersion":1,"presentation":{},"source":{"id":31528,"name":"Ericson et al. (2021). Blood lead levels in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. The Lancet Planetary Health.","dataPublishedBy":"Ericson, B., Hu, H., Nash, E., Ferraro, G., Sinitsky, J., & Taylor, M. P. (2021). Blood lead levels in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(3), e145-e153.","dataPublisherSource":"","link":"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196%2820%2930278-3/fulltext","retrievedDate":"2026-03-10","additionalInfo":"Ericson et al. (2021) collated studies measuring lead blood concentrations in children and adults between 2010 and 2019. This analysis yielded 520 studies covering 1100 sampled populations with a total population of 1,003,455 people from 49 countries.\n\nChildren are defined as those aged 0 to 14 years.\n\nBlood level concentrations are measured in µg/dL. There is no defined 'safe' level for lead blood concentrations. The WHO adopts a threshold of 5 µg/dL as an achievable maximum level in children."},"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2019}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":28,"name":"Bangladesh","code":"BGD"},{"id":32,"name":"Benin","code":"BEN"},{"id":37,"name":"Brazil","code":"BRA"},{"id":43,"name":"Cameroon","code":"CMR"},{"id":171,"name":"China","code":"CHN"},{"id":170,"name":"Colombia","code":"COL"},{"id":167,"name":"Democratic Republic of Congo","code":"COD"},{"id":201,"name":"Ecuador","code":"ECU"},{"id":65,"name":"Egypt","code":"EGY"},{"id":158,"name":"Ethiopia","code":"ETH"},{"id":145,"name":"Haiti","code":"HTI"},{"id":137,"name":"India","code":"IND"},{"id":136,"name":"Indonesia","code":"IDN"},{"id":135,"name":"Iran","code":"IRN"},{"id":134,"name":"Iraq","code":"IRQ"},{"id":132,"name":"Jamaica","code":"JAM"},{"id":379,"name":"Kosovo","code":"OWID_KOS"},{"id":113,"name":"Mexico","code":"MEX"},{"id":112,"name":"Mongolia","code":"MNG"},{"id":110,"name":"Morocco","code":"MAR"},{"id":107,"name":"Nepal","code":"NPL"},{"id":103,"name":"Nigeria","code":"NGA"},{"id":101,"name":"Pakistan","code":"PAK"},{"id":140,"name":"Palestine","code":"PSE"},{"id":92,"name":"Romania","code":"ROU"},{"id":12,"name":"Russia","code":"RUS"},{"id":89,"name":"Senegal","code":"SEN"},{"id":88,"name":"Serbia","code":"SRB"},{"id":81,"name":"South Africa","code":"ZAF"},{"id":64,"name":"Tanzania","code":"TZA"},{"id":75,"name":"Thailand","code":"THA"},{"id":70,"name":"Turkey","code":"TUR"},{"id":68,"name":"Uganda","code":"UGA"},{"id":84,"name":"Vietnam","code":"VNM"}]}},"origins":[]}