Air pollution costs Europe US$ 1.6 trillion
Data and Statistics
A staggering US$ 1.6 trillion is the economic cost of the approximate 600,000 premature deaths and of the diseases caused by air pollution in the WHO European Region in 2010, according to the first-ever study of these costs conducted for the region. The amount is nearly equivalent to one-tenth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the entire European Union in 2013.
Publication Date:
Friday, May 1, 2015