Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world's highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India - researchers
A man uses his mobile phone as he walks amid smog in Tianjin after the city issued a yellow alert for air pollution, China November 26, 2018.
Microscopic flecks are small enough to enter the bloodstream via the respiratory system, leading to asthma, lung cancer and heart disease. "Air pollution is the world's leading environmental health threat," said IQAir CEO Frank Hammes. "Ninety percent of the global population is breathing unsafe air."
More than a million premature deaths in China each year are caused by air pollution, according to the WHO. Recent calculations put the toll at up to twice that figure. Among the club of 36 rich OECD nations, South Korea was the most polluted for PM2.5, counting 105 of the worst 1,000 cities on the index.Other parts of the world such as Africa and the Middle East lacked data.
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