Globally, India is the country where air pollution kills the most people per year, reveals a new report by American and Indian researchers. As many as 1.67 million deaths in 2019 were attributable to air pollution — 17.8% 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 today 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.
The study, published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal on Dec. 21, shows that global…
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