Comment by jajko
2 days ago
Take Nigeria - capital is cca 6 million. That means, that every year around 1150 children die from just air pollution alone, every year.
That is properly fucked up for children under 5. They start with absolutely clean lungs and the damage compounds so much they die from it. Think about all the other age groups that have some other horrific numbers.
In 2022, the all-cause mortality under-5 was 117 per 1000 in Nigeria.
Not per 100k, per 1000.
That means that for every child that dies from air pollution, ~600 more die from some other cause.
To be fair, most causes seem related to terrible living conditions, so everything probably improves or degrades together.