1 lakh kids under 5 years of age die due to air pollution each year: Study | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

1 lakh kids under 5 years of age die due to air pollution each year: Study | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By PTI |New Delhi |Published: June 5, 2019 4:26:25 pm

1 lakh kids under 5 years of age die due to air pollution each year: Study

Think tank CSE's State of India's Environment (SoE) report said that on an average, 8.5 out of every 10,000 children in India die before they turn five, while the risk was higher for girls as 9.6 out of 10,000 girls die before five years of age due to bad air.

Earlier this year, global reports on air pollution revealed that over 1.2 million people died in India due to air pollution in 2017. (Photo: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Air pollution has become a national emergency as it is killing one lakh children under the age of five in India every year and is responsible for 12.5 per cent of all deaths in the country, according to a study released on World Environment Day.