Summary:
"The AQLI is an index that translates particulate air pollution into its impact on life expectancy. In Delhi, pollution concentrations in 2016 averaged 113 micrograms per cubic metre. The index then combines this research with hyper-localised, global particulate measurements, yielding unprecedented insight into the true cost of particulate pollution in communities around the world. NEW DELHI: The toxic air of Delhi is taking away more than 10 years from the life of an average resident who is exposed to it for a sustained period, according to a new index released by a US university on Monday.The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) developed by the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, Michael Greenstone, and his team at the university's Energy Policy Institute (EPIC), calculates the effect of air quality on life expectancy. Over the ensuing two decades, pollution in this region increased to as much as 10 times the WHO safe limit in the case of Uttar Pradesh, where air pollution levels now reduce life expectancy by 8.6 years.Over the past two decades, the concentration of fine particulates increased by 69% on average across India..