Press release: Hong Kong ranked 8th highest in the world for mortalities due to air pollution
Today, Clean Air Network (CAN), using rankings released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Hong Kong’s own data from 2008, revealed that Hong Kong’s number of air pollution-related deaths is the 8th worst out of 193 countries in the world. This is a higher air pollution mortality rate than China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and even Sri Lanka.
By plotting the number of deaths attributable …