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PICS: 7 million died of air pollution in 2012

Air pollution killed seven million people in 2012: WHO

The hardest-hit regions of the globe were what the WHO labels Southeast Asia, which includes India and Indonesia, and the Western Pacific, ranging from China and South Korea to Japan and the Philippines. Together, they accounted for 5.9 million deaths.