Air pollution is estimated to kill more than 6.5 million people worldwide in 2050, two times more than the number of deaths due to air pollution at this time.
Quoted from the Daily Mail, Thursday (09/17/2015), a new study reveals a global basis, air pollution causes around 3.3 million premature deaths each year, mainly in Asia.
Death was caused by two fine particle pollutants that are known as PM2.5s and toxic nitrogen dioxide gas, which is produced by diesel cars, trucks, and buses.
Pollutants affect the capacity and the development of a person's lungs, are also associated with lung cancer to heart disease.
Professor Jos Lelieveld of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry to create a model to look at the relationship of global air pollution with demographic data and health statistics. The model estimated the relative contribution of different sources, especially fine particles that cause premature death.
The results showed emissions from residential energy, such as cooking and heating, which is prevalent in China and India have the greatest impact.
Meanwhile, in most areas of the United States and some other countries, emissions from traffic and power plants are found as the biggest culprit. In Europe, emissions from agriculture is the largest contributor of toxic fine particles.
Professor Michael Jerrett of California University, said the study results are very surprising and should be a wake-up call for policy makers.
He said results of the study also showed about one million lives could be saved annually by reducing exposure to pollutants in the environment.
"More than 3.54 million people per year could be saved by reducing exposure to indoor pollution, especially from changes in energy use in commercial or residential buildings," he said.