The economic loss due to air pollution in India is a staggering $37 bn; need to fight household pollution more effectively.
An analysis of the loss of lives, disease burden, life expectancy and economic loss due to air pollution across Indian states by the Indian State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, published in Lancet, notes that the total number of deaths due to air pollution in India in 2019 were around 1.67 million—of which, 0.98 million deaths were due to ambient particulate matter pollution and 0.61 million due to household air pollution.