Pollution led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, BBC News reports, citing a new Lancet study.
Nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone, and more than 500,000 were caused by water pollution.
The latest Lancet Commission on pollution and health report blamed pollution for nine million - or about one in six - deaths globally.
It said India - where bad air kills more than a million people every year - remained among the worst affected.
In an update of a 2015 estimate on premature deaths caused by pollution, the Lancet study said that data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD) showed that pollution "remains responsible for approximately nine million deaths per year."
Although there has been a decline in deaths attributable to types of pollution associated with extreme poverty such as ho...
