The University of Chicago's Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) shows people in parts of India, the world's second-largest country by population, could live 11 years less due to high levels of air pollution. Life expectancy averages slightly below 69 in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion, according to the World Bank. The researchers launched a website that tells users how many years of life air pollution could cost them according to which region of a country they live in. "The fact that this AQLI tool quantifies the number of years I and you have lost to air pollution makes me worried," Kalikesh Singh Deo, an Indian member of parliament, said in a statement shared by EPIC. Other studies have previously looked into the number of people who may die prematurely because of air pollution.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 20, 2018 12:11 UTC