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New research has suggested that India’s air pollution deaths are about 30 per cent higher than earlier estimates 1.67 million premature deaths during 2019, or more than 10 times the country’s coronavirus death toll during 2020. These 1.67 million premature deaths attributable to air pollution made up nearly 18 per cent of India’s total deaths during 2019, according to the study that has underlined the burden of disease and death and the economic impacts of poor air quality. The study by a consortium of researchers at the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, and collaborating institutions has calculated the economic loss from disease and deaths due to air pollution at 1.4 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product in 2019, or Rs 260,000 crore. This is more than three times higher than the Centre’s current health budget of about Rs 65,000 crore. ....
Delhi had highest per-capita economic loss due to air pollution last year: Lancet study 1.67 million deaths were attributable to air pollution in India in 2019, accounting for 17.8% of the total deaths in the country. Share Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 09:49 AM IST Air pollution woes have quadrupled for Delhi, as the state suffered the highest per-capita economic loss due to air pollution last year, a study in the peer-reviewed medical journal Lancet suggests. For years, northern India especially New Delhi has been battling critical levels of air pollution, which have remained consistently in the hazardous mark, for many days at a stretch, during winters. ....
“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. ....