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Air pollution has emerged as a leading threat to population health. A recent Lancet Commission reported that 6.5 million people worldwide die each year from exposure to air pollution. Emerging evidence further suggests that health co-benefits from air pollution reductions could be an important justification for aggressive climate mitigation policy. Here we review the empirical literature that has established air pollution’s quantitative importance to population health. Our review is organized around two themes. One theme is global inequality: although most of the literature has focused on richer countries, where environmental and demographic data are more likely to be available, exposure levels can be much greater in the developing world. Another theme is the relevance and irrelevance of gaps in the literature: although there are important gaps in data from developing countries, enough is known to conclude that air pollution is a priority not only for environmental health policy, but also for public health and climate policy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Here we use World Bank terminology.

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    However, there is some evidence that suggests that increases in wildfires and a trend towards environmental de-regulation may be causing air pollution to tick back up in areas such as the United States (Clay & Muller, 2019).

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    Melissa LoPalo

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LoPalo, M., Spears, D. (2022). Air Pollution, Health, and Mortality. In: Hunter, L.M., Gray, C., Véron, J. (eds) International Handbook of Population and Environment. International Handbooks of Population, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76433-3_12

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