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🔆 Pollution Crisis in India: Key Data Points with Sources

✅ 2.3 million deaths in 2019 due to pollution in India
🟢 Source: Lancet Study

✅ India = 3rd most polluted country, New Delhi = world’s most polluted capital (5th year)
🟢 Source: World Air Quality Report 2023

✅ Air pollution losses = 8.5% of India’s GDP
🟢 Source: World Bank

✅ Air pollution = 3rd highest cause of death in India
🟢 Source: WHO

✅ 3,469 DALYs/100,000 due to air pollution
🟢 Source: SDG India Index 2024

✅ Life expectancy in Delhi cut by 11.9 years due to air pollution
🟢 Source: Air Quality Life Index Report 2023

✅ 1.2 lakh deaths annually due to landscape fires (2000–2019)
🟢 Source: Lancet

✅ 1,800 vehicles added daily in Delhi
🟢 Source: Delhi Transport Department

✅ 61% urban sewage goes untreated into water bodies
🟢 Source: CPCB

✅ 276 districts have contaminated groundwater (fluoride, arsenic, nitrate)
🟢 Source: CPCB

✅ Water pollution health costs = ₹470–610 billion/year ($6.7–8.7 billion)
🟢 Source: WEF

✅ Plastic production doubled from 234 mt (2000) to 460 mt (2019)
🟢 Source: Our World in Data

✅ Only 23% plastic mismanaged, but 5% leaks into environment, 1.7% to rivers
🟢 Source: Our World in Data

✅ Asia = 50% of global plastic production
🟢 Source: Our World in Data

✅ Only 10% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled
🟢 Source: UN & IUCN Report

✅ India = largest plastic polluter, 9.3 Mt/year (≈ 1/5th of global emissions)
🟢 Source: Nature Journal

✅ 89% plastic in oceans = Single Use Plastic
🟢 Source: UNEP

✅ 50% of plastic in India discarded after single use; 60% recycled
🟢 Source:MoEFCC


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