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- Global Alliance on Health and Pollution released a report named “2019 Pollution and Health Metrics: Global, Regional and Country Analysis”.
- As per the report, India leads the world with about 2.3 million (23,26,771 deaths) in 2017 in terms of premature deaths due to pollution.
- India is followed by China (18,65,566 deaths) & Nigeria (2,79,318 deaths).
- The report estimates the global impact of contaminants in the air, water, and workplace.
Other Data
- In terms of total untimely deaths per 1 lakh population due to pollution, Chad ranks 1st with 287 deaths, followed by the Central African Republic (251) & North Korea (202).
- India ranks 10th in this list with 174.
- In terms of untimely deaths due to air pollution only, China ranks first with 12, 42,987 deaths, India ranked 2nd with (12,40,529 deaths) and Pakistan ranks third (1,28,005).
- India is the only country included in the 3 lists issued by this report.
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