A girl plays on an installed swing on Single Tree Hill at Halchowk, Kathmandu, Nepal on March 29, 2021, as Nepal’s capital was deemed to be the world’s most polluted city by IQAir. Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto via Getty Images
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The State of Global Air Report 2024 has revealed that an average of around 2,000 children, aged 5 and younger, are dying every day from poor air quality.
The study, by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in partnership with UNICEF, linked 8.1 million deaths of people of all ages in 2021 to air pollution. The report determined that in 2021, around 709,000 deaths of children under 5 years could be connected to air pollution, making poor air…
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