TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taipei is the 14th noisiest out of 50 world cities ranked by the World Health Organization, according to media reports Thursday.

The amount of noise aged the average Taipei citizen by 16.8 years, the same report said.

The WHO found that the loudest city in the world was Shenzhen, in China’s Guangdong Province, followed by Delhi in India and by the Egyptian capital Cairo.

According to data from the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), most complaints about excessive noise are made about construction sites, followed by karaoke parlors and traffic.

However, only 4 percent of complaints are successful due to the difficulty of supplying evidence. Cable station CTi-TV provided the example of a retired teacher in Kaohsiung who even recorded decibel levels of the garbage trucks which passed by his house three times a day playing the tune “A Maiden’s Prayer.” In the end, the courts rejected his claims due to insufficient evidence, but he was continuing the legal process, CTi reported.