Published on : 23 Oct 2025, 1:33 am

An astounding two million lives were lost to air pollution related diseases in India in 2023, according to the State of Global Air (SoGA) 2025 report released by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), United States. This is a staggering rise from 1.4 million deaths in 2000, a 43 per cent increase. Nearly nine out of 10 of these deaths were linked to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes, and even dementia.

Globally, air pollution is responsible for eight million deaths annually — about one in eight deaths world-wide. More than half of these deaths (about 4.9 million) are due to outdoor air pollution, 2.8 million due to household air pollution and the res

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