“Besides a roughly estimated expenditure of 0.4 per cent of the GDP on treatment of air pollution-related diseases, the health and economic impact of air pollution is highest in the less developed states of India, an inequity that should be addressed,” Prof Lalit Dandona, Director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, who is National Chair of Population Health at ICMR, Professor at PHFI, and senior author of this paper told The Indian Express
Dandona pointed out that the high burden of death and disease due to air pollution and its adverse economic impact from loss of output could impede India’s aspiration to be a $5-trillion economy by 2024.
The findings highlight that lost output from deaths and diseases due to air pollution led to a loss of 1.4 per cent of the GDP of the country .
India has a good economic and development trajectory, which can improve further with the reduction of air pollution, the scientific paper noted.
According to the paper, the economic loss due to air pollution as a percentage of the state GDP was higher in the northern and central India states, with the highest in Uttar Pradesh (2.2 per cent of GDP) and Bihar (2 per cent of GDP).
NITI Aayog member Prof Vinod Paul said the scientific paper presents the latest evidence on air pollution in India, translating the health loss to economic impact.
Deaths, diseases attributed to air pollution in India led to 1.4% GDP loss in 2019: Study
The findings in the paper highlight that while the disease burden due to household air pollution is reducing in India, the same has increased due to ambient outdoor air pollution. Updated: December 22, 2020 11:18:39 pm
The findings reported in the paper are part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.(Representational)
As many as 1.7 million deaths in India 18 per cent of the total deaths in the country were attributable to air pollution in 2019. The economic impact of this health loss due to lost productivity was huge, resulting in 1.4 per cent loss in the country’s GDP in 2019, which is equivalent to Rs 260,000 crore (US$ 36.8 billion), a new study has said.
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NEW DELHI: Air pollution killed nearly 1.7 million people in India in 2019, accounting for an alarming 17.8% of all deaths in the country in the year, a new paper written as a collaborative effort by Indian institutions that include ICMR has said.
The economic loss due to lost output from premature deaths and disease caused by pollution last year was estimated at around Rs 2.6 lakh crore, nearly 1.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) with Delhi suffering the highest per capita loss, followed by Haryana. The health and economic losses are higher than previously estimated.
The study was conducted by the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiativs a collaborative effort involving over 300 researchers from institutions like ICMR, Public Health Foundation of India, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and others and assumes significance as it provides data from across different states for policy-makers. The findings show the per capita economic loss due t
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NEW DELHI: Air pollution killed 1.7 million Indians, accounting for nearly 18% of total deaths in 2019, and resulted in an economic loss of Rs 2.6 lakh crore, nearly 1.4% of GDP, a comprehensive report of the disease burden attributable to air pollution and its economic impact has revealed.
The India State-level Disease Burden Initiative (ISLDBI) published in
The Lancet also showed that while the mortality from indoor air pollution reduced by 64% between 1990 and 2019, deaths from outdoor ambient air pollution increased by 115% during this period.
The ISLDBI was launched in 2015 as a collaborative effort between the ICMR, Public Health Foundation of India, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and a number of other stakeholders in India, including academic experts and institutions, government agencies, and other organizations, under the aegis of the Union ministry of health and family welfare.