The State of Global Air 2019  report has been released by US-based organisation Health Effects Institute (HEI)

• Overall long-term exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to nearly five million deaths from stroke, diabetes, heart attack, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease in 2017.
• South Asia viz. Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan is the most polluted region, with over 1.5 million air-pollution-related deaths.
• China and India together were responsible for over half of the total global attributable deaths from air pollution in 2017.
• Exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to over 1.2 million deaths in India in 2017.
• Air pollution is the third highest cause of death among all health risks, ranking just above smoking in India.