Table 1.
Excess mortality rate attributed to air pollution in the top 15 ranking countries
| All sources | Fossil-fuel-related | Total anthropogenic | ||||
| Countries | Excess deaths, ×103/y | YLL, ×106/y | Avoidable deaths, ×103/y | Unavoidable warming, °C | Avoidable deaths, ×103/y | Unavoidable warming, °C |
| China | 2,799 | 61.9 | 1,554 | 0.92 | 2,204 | 1.21 |
| India | 1,853 | 55.0 | 692 | 0.38 | 1,140 | 0.42 |
| USA | 283 | 5.7 | 194 | 0.88 | 230 | 1.17 |
| Pakistan | 233 | 7.9 | 29 | 0.44 | 73 | 0.52 |
| Japan | 203 | 3.1 | 84 | 1.03 | 117 | 1.28 |
| Russian Federation | 186 | 4.3 | 114 | 1.07 | 152 | 1.23 |
| Nigeria | 181 | 9.1 | 6 | 0.10 | 33 | 0.09 |
| Bangladesh | 175 | 5.1 | 73 | 0.80 | 130 | 1.00 |
| Indonesia | 174 | 5.3 | 35 | 0.19 | 88 | 0.05 |
| Sudan + South Sudan | 126 | 5.5 | 6 | 0.45 | 11 | 0.36 |
| Germany | 124 | 2.1 | 76 | 0.91 | 115 | 1.14 |
| Egypt | 120 | 3.4 | 19 | 1.03 | 21 | 0.90 |
| Brazil | 102 | 2.7 | 16 | 0.35 | 65 | 0.36 |
| Vietnam | 88 | 2.2 | 35 | 0.35 | 61 | 0.52 |
| Italy | 81 | 1.2 | 41 | 0.84 | 50 | 1.10 |
| World | 8,793 | 233 | 3,608 | 0.35 | 5,554 | 0.36 |
Avoidable deaths and unavoidable net warming consider sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases. SI Appendix, Tables S1 and S2 present results for the different disease categories and all countries, plus 95% confidence intervals.