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People walk along Rajpath near India Gate under heavy smog conditions in New Delhi on November 9, 2020. AFP
Air pollution led to 1.67M dead in India in 2019
Wed, 23 December 2020
Globally, India is the country where air pollution kills the most people per year, reveals a new report by US and Indian researchers. As many as 1.67 million deaths last year were attributable to air pollution – 17.8 per cent of all deaths in the country.
Air pollution takes a heavy human and economic toll in India, a country of about 1.35 billion people. That’s what an alarming report on the subject unveiled on December 22 by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India, indicates.
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