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Overall, air pollution causes the deaths of around ca. 7 million people worldwide each year, and is the world's largest single environmental health risk, according to the WHO (2012) and the IEA (2016). [33] [34] [35]
Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.
India and China have the highest death rate due to air pollution. [143] [144] India also has more deaths from asthma than any other nation according to the World Health Organization. In 2019, 1.6 million deaths in India were caused by air pollution. [145] In 2013, air pollution was estimated to kill 500,000 people in China each year. [146]
When deaths are put on a per population rate, the United States ranks 31st from the bottom at 43.6 pollution deaths per 100,000. ... The United States is the only fully industrialized country in ...
Asia accounted for over 98 million of the premature deaths linked to PM2.5 pollution ... effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution” are associated with 6.7 million premature ...
A 2020 paper reported that about half of air pollution and half of the resulting deaths are caused by emissions from outside a given state's boundaries, typically from prevailing winds moving west to east. [9] Regulation of air pollution is a shared responsibility between federal, state, and local governments.
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
The budget reconciliation bill that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has concluded with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., could save up to 3,900 lives per year by 2030, thanks to reduced air ...