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The India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative
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- It is a collaboration between Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
- As per this report, the Air pollution killed 1.7 million Indians in 2019.
- The toll in India was 18 % of the total deaths in the country.
- The indoor or household air pollution led to 64% fewer deaths in the last two decades (1990-2019).
- The death rate from outdoor air pollution has increased during this period by 115 per cent
- Lung diseases caused by air pollution accounted for the highest share.
- India has lost 1.4 % of GDP (Rs 2,60,000 crore) due to premature deaths and morbidity from air pollution.
- The economic loss due to air pollution as a % of the state GDP was higher in the northern and central India states,
- The highest was in Uttar Pradesh (2.2 % of GSDP) and Bihar (2 % of GSDP).
- Delhi had the highest per-capita economic loss due to air pollution, followed by Haryana in 2019.
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