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Air pollution costs the world economy $5 trillion per year as a result of productivity
losses and degraded quality of life. These productivity losses are caused by deaths due
to diseases caused by air pollution. The report states that additional economic losses
caused by air pollution, including health costs and the adverse effect on agricultural
and other productivity were not calculated in the report, and thus the actual costs to
the world economy are far higher than $5 trillion.
1.2.4.Health effect
a compilation of air pollutant emission factors for a wide range of industrial sources.
Air and water pollutions are a significant risk factor for a number of pollution-related
diseases and health conditions including respiratory infections, heart disease, ,
breathing, stroke and lung cancer, as wel as typhoid and cholera.
The World Health Organization estimated in 2014 that every year air pollution causes
the premature death of some 7 million people worldwide.
India has the highest death rate due to air pollution. India also has more deaths from
asthma than any other nation according to the World Health Organization.
In December 2013 air pollution was estimated to kill 500,000 people in China each
year. And European deaths caused by air pollution are estimated at 430,000. An
important cause of these deaths is nitrogen dioxide and other nitrogen oxides (NOx)
emitted by industries.