According to the State of Global Air Report 2019, over 1.2 million deaths In India in 2017 were from all air pollution.
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The annual study titled “State of Global Air 2019” is conducted by Boston-headquartered Health Effects Institute (HEI).
The data used in the State of Global Air report are developed as part of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s (IHME) annual Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) project.
Key Findings:
Life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average, growing up in current high levels of air pollution.
Overall long-term exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to nearly 5 million deaths across the world from stroke, diabetes, heart attack, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease in 2017.
This means that air pollution contributed to nearly one in every 10 deaths in 2017, making it a bigger killer than malaria, malnutrition, and road accidents.
China and India together were responsible for over half of the total global attributable deaths, with each country facing over 1.2 million deaths from all air pollution in 2017.
In India, air pollution is the third-highest cause of death among all health risks.
The South Asian region — Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan — led the world as the most polluted, with over 1.5 million air-pollution related deaths.
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