Sentences with phrase «estimates outdoor air»
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Co-author of the study, Jason West, from the University of North Carolina, said: «Our estimates make outdoor air pollution among the most important environmental risk factors for health.
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Researchers estimate that worldwide, more than two million deaths occur each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 92 % of the world's population live in areas with inadequate outdoor air quality, and this pollution contributes to 1 out of every 8 deaths.
An estimated 627,000 Indians die prematurely each year from outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease project.
«We estimate, in other work, that today there are about 4 million deaths each year that can be attributed to outdoor air pollution.»
Qiao Ma, a PhD student at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, found that outdoor air pollution from coal alone caused an estimated 366,000 deaths in China in 2013.
This map, based on previous research, shows a model estimate of the average number of deaths per 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) per year due to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a type of outdoor air pollution.