10,000: estimated number of Parisians who can be awoken by “a single unmuffled scooter” in the middle of the night
53,942: number of loudspeakers removed from religious places across the state of Uttar Pradesh, India
60,295: number of loudspeakers from religious places across the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, whose volume has been lowered
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¹Footnotes
France: bloomberg.com. India: business-standard.com.
Originally published in the May 2, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter. Get it in your inbox via tinyletter.com/disquiet.