NEW DELHI: Air pollution shortens average life expectancy in India, the second most polluted country in the world after Bangladesh, by five years, according to a new Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) analysis released on Tuesday. In fact, pollution would cut 7. 6 years of life expectancy of 40% of Indians who live in the IndoGangetic plains, says the the report released by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
In the case of Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital, people would lose 10 years of their lives in a business-as-usual scenario of not adhering to the new WHO standards.

新德里:根据周二发布的一项新的空气质量生活指数(AQLI)分析,空气污染使印度这个仅次于孟加拉国的世界第二大污染国的平均预期寿命缩短了5年。芝加哥大学能源政策研究所(EPIC)发布的这份报告称,事实上,污染将使生活在印度恒河平原的40%的印度人的预期寿命缩短7.6年。
以世界上污染最严重的首都德里为例,如果一切照旧,不遵守世卫组织的新标准,人们将失去10年的生命。

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