India saw the largest number of air pollution-related deaths among children under fives years of age in 2021, at 169,400. Nigeria followed, with an estimated 114,000 deaths among these children. The highest air pollution-related death rates among children under five are observed in South Asia and East, West, Central, and Southern Africa.
Countries with the largest numbers of air pollution–related deaths among children under five years of age worldwide in 2021
Death rates across GBD Super Regions (countries grouped by similar cause-of-death patterns).
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Supplementary notes
Estimates of uncertainty are provided for every value in the form of 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs), representing the range between the 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of the distribution of possible values.
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