“The Quietest Countries in the World
Last updated on 27 July 2026
There’s a particular kind of tiredness that comes from noise, the low hum of modern life that never quite switches off. For a growing number of travellers, the dream holiday isn’t a packed itinerary. It’s silence.
The evidence backs up what many already feel. Noise pollution is more damaging than most people realise, and the case against it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) ranks it as the second largest environmental cause of health problems, behind only air pollution, and estimates that at least one million healthy life-years are lost annually from traffic-related noise alone.
