Hundreds of thousands of factories around the world pollute the air of our planet every day. For countries such as China, this problem is particularly relevant, because many Chinese cities are literally covered with smog from the industrial plants. But things are bad in China. It turned out that in some European countries the situation is little better than in China. Experts of the European Agency EEA in Copenhagen came to a disappointing conclusion that air pollution annually kills approximately half a million Europeans.
Despite the statistics about the slow improvement of air quality in Europe, experts of the European Agency for control over the environment (EEA) believe that air pollution is causing 500 000 annual deaths among residents of European countries. To be precise, we are talking about 520 400 dead people from 41 European countries only for 2014. The cause of death of the population scientists believe air pollution from the combustion of various fossil fuels. For comparison: in 2013, air pollution died of 550 000 people.
According to the statistics, the deaths of four people out of five in this case was directly linked to the atmospheric pollution with products of fuel combustion. Air polluting particles have a size of about 2.5 microns, which is sufficient to penetrate the human lungs. Thus, according to the same statistics, the exposure of people to diseases associated with environmental pollution, has dropped from 85 to 82 percent in the period from 2013 to 2015.
Air pollution kills 500,000 Europeans annually
Sergey Grey