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- The report titled as ‘Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia’ was released by the World Bank.
- South Asia is home to nine of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution.
- Dhaka ranked seventh in the list of cities worldwide with worse air quality.
- Air pollution is responsible for about 20 per cent of the total premature deaths in Bangladesh.
- In South Asia, nearly 60% of the population lives in areas where concentrations of 5 exceed an annual mean of 35 μg/m3 (WHO prescribes 5 μg/m3).
- In the densely populated Indo-Gangetic Plain, it is over 20 times higher than the WHO-prescribed levels.
- This report identifies six major airsheds in South Asia where spatial interdependence in air quality is high.
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