DNA Special: How air pollution is bigger threat than we perceive
ICMR has released statistics on deaths from pollution. According to these figures, in 2019, 16 lakh deaths have occurred due to pollution in India.
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Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 09:06 AM IST
The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) released data on deaths due to pollution in the country. According to these startling figures, 16 lakh people died due to pollution in the country in 2019. Out of these, 9.8 lakh people lost their lives due to high levels of PM 2.5 in the air, while 6.10 lakh people died due to indoor pollution.
Pollution kills nearly 4,383 people in our country every day and the number of deaths every hour is 282. This basically means pollution is responsible for 18 per cent of the total deaths in the country. A comparative study of the last 29 years has also revealed that Indoor Air Pollution in India has decreased by 64 per cent but Outdoor Air Pollution has increased by 115 per cent.
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