Air pollution kills more people in the UK than in Sweden, US and Mexico
by Sandra Laville from on (#2PTGV)
WHO figures show people in Britain are more likely to die from dirty air than those living in some other comparable countries
People in the UK are 64 times as likely to die of air pollution as those in Sweden and twice as likely as those in the US, figures from the World Health Organisation reveal.
Britain, which has a mortality rate for air pollution of 25.7 for every 100,000 people, was also beaten by Brazil and Mexico - and it trailed far behind Sweden, the cleanest nation in the EU, with a rate of 0.4.
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