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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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billion people) are exposed to annual average levels of fine particulate matter exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline from 2005, leading to 1.8 million excess deaths in cities globally in 2019. The WHO 2005 guideline for PM 2.5 This has since been updated to the WHO 2021 guideline for PM 2.5

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