# ICNIRP 2020 general public reference level, 2–300 GHz

> 10 W/m² incident power density averaged over 30 minutes and over the whole body — the reference level that 5G mid-band and Wi-Fi compliance is judged against outside the U.S.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/icnirp-public-power-density-above-2-ghz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:icnirp-2020-public-2-300ghz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/icnirp-public-power-density-above-2-ghz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 1 × 10^7 µW/m² — Guideline value — scientific recommendation — 10 W/m² = 1 mW/cm² = 10,000,000 µW/m², whole-body average. [icnirp-2020]
- **Quantity:** power density
- **Frequency band:** 2–300 GHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** ICNIRP 2020 RF guidelines (100 kHz–300 GHz) (2020)
- **Kind:** Guideline — scientific recommendation
- **Averaging time:** 30 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Sources

- `icnirp-2020` International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (2020). *Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz)*. https://www.icnirp.org/en/publications/article/rf-guidelines-2020.html — guideline, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

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