The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale
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Our total estimate of 3.30 (CI95: 1.61–4.81) million people in 2010 agrees closely with the GBD. This is in addition to the estimated 3.54 million deaths per year caused by indoor air pollution due to use of solid fuels for cooking and heating. Figure 1 shows the geographic distribution and demonstrates the locations of hotspots in China, India and many of the large urban centres.
[...] The highest per capita mortality is found in the Western Pacific region, followed by the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia. The combination of high per capita mortality with high population density explains the (by far) highest number of deaths in the Western Pacific, China being the main contributor (1.36 million per year).[...]
Source categories responsible for the largest impact on mortality linked to outdoor air pollution in 2010.
Source categories (colour coded): IND, industry; TRA, land traffic; RCO, residential and commercial energy use (for example, heating, cooking); BB, biomass burning; PG, power generation; AGR, agriculture; and NAT, natural. In the white areas, annual mean PM2.5 is below the concentration–response threshold.[...] Agriculture (AGR) has a remarkably large impact on PM2.5, and is the leading source category in Europe, Russia, Turkey, Korea, Japan and the Eastern USA (Fig. 2). In many European countries, its contribution is 40% or higher.
