Findings suggest if India is able to meet clean air targets, anaemia prevalence among women in the reproductive age would fall from 53 per cent to about 39 per cent
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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.
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.