Copenhagen: According to the European Union Environment Agency, air pollution kills 1,200 children each year in Europe.
The Environment Agency of the European Union has published a report on air pollution after researching the number of people who died as a result of air pollution in 30 different European nations.
The paper states that air pollution raises the chance of developing chronic diseases later in life and that the number of air pollution-related fatalities in continental Europe may be higher.
According to the research, air pollution levels in the majority of European nations exceed WHO recommendations, and in the 1990s, there were one million annual deaths in the EU due to fine particles.
The big industrialized nations of Russia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom were not covered in the report.
According to the paper, air pollution kills 1,200 children each year in Europe. By contrast, mortality in member states of the European Union increased to 431,000 per year by 2005 and to Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland by 2020. And there were 238,000 fatalities in Turkey each year.
The European Union is on track to reduce air pollution-related mortality by 50% by 2030, the report claims.
According to the World Health Organisation, 7 million people die from air pollution-related causes each year around the world, yet the situation in Europe is better than in other nations.
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