HEALTH AND POLLUTION

About:

• The report provides a ranking of pollution deaths on global, regional and country levels.
  
  
• It uses the most recent Global Burden of Disease data from the Institute of Health Metrics Evaluation.
  
  

Key findings:

• In 2017, pollution was responsible for 15% of all deaths globally, and 275 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years.
  
  
• India had most deaths — about 2.3 million — caused by pollution in 2017. India is followed by China in the number of pollution deaths, with about 1.8 million.
  
  
• Chad tops the list of countries with the most pollution-related deaths in proportion to their population, whereas India is at number 10 with 174 deaths for every 1,00,000 people.