What you breathe makes you poor: The effect of air pollution …

Some studies highlighted the economic burden of air pollution in China, linking it to reduced work productivity and brain drain (Chen and Zhang, 2021; Fu, Viard, ... The right panel illustrates the air pollution effects on cities with varying levels of PM2.5 concentration. The baseline group in the right Panel includes cities with PM2.5 density ...

How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?

Air pollution negatively impacts the U.S. economy, costing the U.S. roughly 5 percent of its yearly gross domestic product (GDP) in damages ($790 billion in …

The direct economic impact of improving air quality

The main causes for economic losses due to air pollution are: In the EU specifically, air pollution was linked to costs of US$1.6 billion for 600,000 premature deaths and US$1.6 billion in economic damages in 2010, which amounted to 10% of the region's GDP. In the US, damages caused by air pollution are equivalent to 5% of the country's ...

Health and economic impacts of air pollution induced by …

Extreme weather events may enhance ozone (O 3) and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) pollution, causing additional adverse health effects.This work aims to evaluate the health and associated economic impacts of changes in air quality induced by heat wave, stagnation, and compound extremes under the Representative Concentration Pathways …

Economic and Cost Analysis for Air Pollution Regulations

This website provides access to EPA documents and tools relating to cost, benefit, and economic impact analyses of national stationary source air pollution regulations. The EPA develops and publishes reports such as Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) and Economic Impact Analyses (EIAs), as well as databases and models. This …

The Health and Economic Impacts of Ambient Air Quality in …

This has significant implications for Malaysia, whose ambient air quality standards for most pollutants remain above both the 2005 and 2021 guidelines of the WHO [8]. Such health risks and outcomes have a corresponding cost in healthcare spending and losses in productivity, a significant economic burden of disease from air pollution.

Internalising health-economic impacts of air pollution …

It maximises regional welfare internalising air pollution's economic impacts on human mortality under climate constraints. This is the first global study to optimise structural and end-of-pipe investments to mitigate air pollution and to simultaneously attain the Paris Agreement temperature objectives of 1·5°C and 2°C. The evaluation is ...

The Adverse Impact of Air Pollution on China's Economic Growth …

This study empirically evaluates the impact of air pollution on China's economic growth, based on a province-level sample for the period 2002–2017. Air pollution is measured by the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and economic growth is measured by the annual growth rate of gross domestic product …

Air Pollution's Impact on the Economic, Social, Medical, …

1. Introduction. The impact of ambient air quality on human health has become the focus of global public health. In regards to China, not only will it restrict the country's labor development and economic progress, but it may also expose the country's current medical insurance system to public health shocks caused by air pollution.

The economic cost of air pollution: Evidence from Europe

The analysis combines satellite-based measures of air pollution with statistics on regional economic activity at the NUTS-3 level throughout the European Union over the period 2000-15. An instrumental variables approach based on thermal inversions is used to identify the causal impact of air pollution on economic activity.

How BenMAP-CE Estimates the Health and Economic Effects of Air Pollution

The BenMAP-CE tool estimates the number and economic value of heath impacts resulting from changes in air quality - specifically, ground-level ozone and fine particles. Before describing how BenMAP-CE calculates impacts and economic values, it is helpful to first understand how air pollution affects health. Fine particles can enter …

The Economic Consequences of Outdoor Air Pollution | en

Main findings. Increasing economic growth and energy demand will lead to a significant increase in global emissions of air pollutants. Rising emissions, together with …

Why Air Pollution Is a Socioeconomic Issue

Climate change, ozone depletion, and other environmental ills are widely discussed effects of air pollution. Less well-known, at least in the developed world, are the lethal short-term public health impacts of breathing polluted air. In fact, up to 6.5 million deaths globally every year may be attributed to air pollution.

Health and Economic Impact of Air Pollution in India

The economic loss due to lost output from premature deaths and morbidity from air pollution was 1.4% of the GDP in India in 2019, equivalent to INR 260,000 crores (US$ 36.8 billion). The economic loss due to air pollution as a percentage of the state GDP was higher in the northern and central India states, with the highest in Uttar …

The psychological, economic, and social costs of …

The psychological, economic, and social costs of air pollution. Air pollution's destructive consequences go beyond …

The psychological, economic, and social costs of …

The review, conducted by MIT Sloan assistant professor. Jackson Lu. systematically examines the psychological, economic, and social effects of air pollution. His findings appear in the April edition of …

Health and economic benefits of clean air policies in China: …

The health and economic impacts of air pollution cannot be ignored (Wu et al., 2017). The results show that the PM 2.5 concentration reductions due to implementing BSPC will reduce morbidity cases and health expenditures in BTH. After implementing the BSPC, by 2020, the reduced morbidity cases and health expenditures …

The economic consequences of outdoor air pollution

The market impacts of outdoor air pollution, which include impacts on labour productivity, health expenditures and agricultural crop yields, are projected to lead to global …

Air Pollution and Your Health

PM 2.5 accounts for most health effects due to air pollution in the U.S. Volatile organic compounds (VOC) vaporize at or near room temperature—hence, the designation volatile. They are called organic because they contain carbon. VOCs are given off by paints, cleaning supplies, pesticides, some furnishings, and even craft materials …

The State of Air Quality in Malaysia

Health impacts have corresponding economic costs in the form of healthcare and medical spending and losses in economic productivity following premature death. The estimated annual economic cost of ambient air pollution in Malaysia is estimated at MYR 303 billion (US$ 73 billion) — or 20% of the country's GDP in 2019.

The economic impact of air pollution: a European assessment

Air pollution poses a high economic burden on European countries, mainly due to social costs. More attention should be devoted to estimating direct healthcare costs of air pollution, in order to properly inform policy makers about the impact on healthcare systems.

Economic cost of the health impact of air pollution in …

Overview. This paper extends the analyses of the most recent WHO, European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development research on the cost of ambient and air pollution to cover all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. It describes and discusses the topic of air pollution from a …

Air Pollution Diminishes Future Generations' Economic …

The research and statistics show how the environment — air and water pollution, a changing climate, and increasingly damaging natural disasters — affects America's people and businesses. An important part of this research is to understand how these effects interact with issues of environmental justice and the disproportionate ...

THE ECONOMIC COST OF AIR POLLUTION: EVIDENCE …

Ninety-five per cent of this impact is due to reductions in output per worker, which can occur through greater absenteeism at work or reduced labour productivity. Therefore, the …

What are the economic impacts of air pollution?

Air pollution is a well-known issue that impacts every corner of the globe, with detrimental effects on human and environmental health. Poor air quality also has vast …

Air Pollution and Health: Economic Implications | SpringerLink

First Online: 13 October 2022. pp 1–42. Cite this living reference work entry. Olivier Chanel. 138 Accesses. Abstract. In September 2021, the World Health Organization decided to …

Air pollution

Air pollution is the world's leading environmental health risk and a major cause of environmental degradation. As the main environmental trigger for premature death globally, it is vital to tackle air pollution while also finding sustainable ways to cope with the pressures of economic activity. To support policy makers in their decision ...

Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states …

We estimated the economic impact of air pollution as the cost of lost output due to premature deaths and morbidity attributable to air pollution for every state of India, using the cost-of-illness method. Findings: 1·67 million (95% uncertainty interval 1·42-1·92) deaths were attributable to air pollution in India in 2019, accounting for 17 ...

The Economic Consequences of Outdoor Air Pollution | en | OECD

The market impacts of outdoor air pollution are projected to lead to global economic costs that gradually increase to 1% of global GDP by 2060. Costs related to additional health expenditures and labour productivity losses dominate in the long run. Change in regional GDP from market impacts, central projection.

The Clean Air Act and the Economy | US EPA

Between 1970 and 2019, aggregate emissions of common air pollutants dropped 77 percent, while the U.S. gross domestic product grew 285 percent. 6 Total …

Economic Impact Analyses for Air Pollution Regulations

EPA develops Economic Impact Analyses (EIAs) to support the development of national air pollution regulations. EIAs describe and quantify the reallocation of society's resources in response to a regulatory action. The most typical types of regulations for which EIAs are completed include industry or process-specific …

Economic issues of air pollution

The impacts of air pollution on the economy include direct economic impacts as well as indirect economic impacts stemming from the human health and environmental effects of air pollution. Reducing air pollution would lead to significant benefits to the socio-economic well-being of Canadians. Reductions in illness and …

Solving India's Air Pollution Can Boost Economy And …

Impact of Air Pollution on Indian Economy and Businesses. We found that if India had achieved safe air quality levels in 2019, its GDP would have increased by $95 billion, or 3%, as Indian businesses would face lower costs and higher revenues. This means there was potential to return a value equal to 50% of all tax collected annually, or …

Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review

Diseases associated with air pollution have not only an important economic impact but also a societal impact due to absences from productive work and school. Despite the difficulty of eradicating the problem of anthropogenic environmental pollution, a successful solution could be envisaged as a tight collaboration of authorities, …

Air pollution and economic development | UNECE

In 2015, WHO and OECD estimated that the economic cost of premature death and disability from air pollution in Europe is close to USD 1.6 trillion. Air pollution takes its toll on the economy in several ways: it costs human lives, it reduces people's ability to work, it affects vital products like food, it damages cultural and historical ...

The air pollution effect of government economic growth expectations

Based on the Government Work Report of 265 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004 to 2015, this article combines economic growth expectations data and keyword capture to explore the relationship between government economic growth expectations and air pollution. The main results are as follows: (1) The economic growth expectations of …