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PM2.5 pollution led to over 17 lakh deaths in India in 2022: Lancet
Millennium Post Delhi
|October 31, 2025
India witnessed more than 17 lakh deaths in 2022 due to human-caused PM2.5 air pollution—a 38 per cent rise since 2010—with nearly half of these deaths linked to fossil fuel use, according to a new global analysis published in The Lancet journal.
The 2025 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, involving 128 experts from 71 academic institutions and UN agencies led by University College London, found that 44 per cent of the 1,718,000 deaths were attributable to fossil fuels such as coal and liquid gas.
The authors noted that "fossil fuels (coal and liquid gas) contributed to 752,000 of these deaths in 2022," underscoring the health burden tied to India's energy choices.
This story is from the October 31, 2025 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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