Correction to: Palgrave Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0336-4, published online 12 November 2019.

The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1
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Carbon dioxide emission rates (Tons per GWh) of each country’s electrical grid, health impact rate (excess mortality cases per TWh) of air pollutant emissions from each country’s electrical grid, CO2 emissions rate (Ton CO2 per ton of oil equivalent) from transportation in each country, and health impact rate (deaths per 1000 tons of oil equivalent consumed) from air pollutants from transportation in each country, in 2010 (International Energy Agency n.d.). Countries in dark grey did not have data available.

The units label for the axis on panel 3 should read “Tons CO2/toe” rather than “Thousand tons CO2/toe”. The text describing that panel should read “Tons CO2/toe” rather than “kg CO2”.

This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.