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Air pollution caused 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021: Report
The New Indian Express
|June 20, 2024
AIR pollution contributed to 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021, with India and China recording a whopping 2.1 million and 2.3 million fatalities respectively, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The report by Health Effects Institute (HEI), an independent US-based research organisation, in partnership with UNICEF, said air pollution claimed 1,69,400 children in India under the age of five. It is followed by Nigeria with 1,14,100 child deaths, Pakistan with 68,100, Ethiopia with 31,100, and Bangladesh with 19,100.
The report said that in 2021, exposure to air pollution was linked to more than 7,00,000 deaths of children under 5 years, making it the second-leading risk factor for death globally for this age group, after malnutrition. A staggering 5 lakh of these child deaths were linked to household air pollution due to cooking indoors with polluting fuels, mostly in Africa and Asia.
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