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El gráfico muestra los niveles de contaminación del aire en India hasta el 5 de noviembre y la pérdida promedio en las expectativas de vida en el mundo y en India de 1998 a 2016 debido a la contaminaición.
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La mala calidad del aire reduce 7 años la vida en India

By Jordi Bou

November 5, 2019 - Cuando el esmog asfixia a Nueva Delhi, un nuevo estudio muestra que la contaminación del aire puede reducir la expectativa de vida hasta siete años en una amplia franja del norte de India, hogar de cerca de 40% de la población

More than 480 million people reside in the seven States and union territories comprising the bulk of the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) region of north India namely Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), shows there has been a 72% increase in pollution from 1998 to 2016 in the IGP region. In 1998, the impact on people’s lives from dirty air would have been 3.7 years of life expectancy.

In 1998, citizens living outside of the IGP region lost 1.2 years of life relative to what it would have been if air quality met the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. In 2016, citizens in non-IGP states lost about 2.6 years of life compared to 7 years in the IGP region.

Delhi entered its 10th consecutive day of hazardous air pollution on Tuesday, according to air quality analysts IQAir AirVisual, making it the longest string of severely polluted days for the city since records began in 2016.

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PUBLISHED: 05/11/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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