Global & Disaster Medicine

** More than 5.5 million people worldwide are dying prematurely every year as a result of air pollution.

BBC

**  Most of these deaths are occurring in China (coal production) and India (indoor pollution).

**  Air pollution causes more deaths than other risk factors like malnutrition, obesity, alcohol and drug abuse, and unsafe sex:  China: 1.6 million deaths a year; India:  1.3 million deaths/year

 

 

 

 


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