Another 610,000 were due to household air pollution, according to the report. The majority of these deaths, 980,000, were caused by ambient PM2.5 pollution. In India, air pollution was responsible for 1.67 million deaths in 2019 - 17.8% of all deaths in the country, the largest number of air-pollution-related deaths of any country in the world. Of them, 4.5 million died due to ambient (atmospheric) pollution, up by 300,000 since 2015 and by 1.3 million since 2000. That’s 6.67 million people worldwide, dead due to air pollution (both household and ambient). It added that 75% of these were due to air pollution specifically. Pollution was responsible for nine million deaths in 2019 – equivalent to one in six deaths worldwide - according to a report published in The Lancet Planetary Health last year.
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