Children in South Asia hardest hit by air pollution: Study - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

If air pollution levels were brought within WHO guidelines Pakistan would see life expectancy increase by one year.

However it warns “the loss of life expectancy is not borne equally”, with children in South Asia set to have their lives cut short by 30 months because of a combination of outdoor air pollution and dirty indoor air. The top five countries with the highest mortality rate due to air pollution were all in Asia: China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

Nearly half of the world’s population is exposed to household air pollution – including an estimated 846 million people in India and 452 million in China.

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