Air pollutants continue to reduce life expectancy around the world, despite global efforts to improve air quality.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million people die each year from air pollution, making it a greater risk to human health than smoking, AIDS and tuberculosis.
Particles are an aggregate of liquid and forged waste in the air created through traffic, structure sites, the burning of fossil fuels and sources.
For at least two decades, the Air Life and Quality Index (AQLI) has shown that polluting particles have reduced international life expectancy for nearly two years, to what air quality would meet WHO standards.
The Bangkok skyline on January 30, 2019. A new report says that despite global efforts for air quality, pollutants are guilty of shortening overall life expectancy by nearly two years.
The challenge is that the progress made through the governments involved has been offset by the worsening air pollutants in other countries, according to economist Michael Greenstone, author of AQLI and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
Since 2013, China has reduced pollutant particles by nearly 40%.
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