premature deaths in 2015 from air pollution linked to plastic production
Tiny particles of air pollution from making plastics were linked to about 158,000 early deaths and over US$200 billion in health-related losses in 2015, in a modelled estimate.
- Value
- ~158,000
- Unit
- deaths
- Data year
- 2015
- Trend
- Not applicable
- Source name
- Lancet Countdown on health and plastics 2025
- Source link
- doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01447-3
- Confidence
- Evidence: Medium
- Caveat / scope
- Modelled attribution, for the year 2015.
- Verified on
- 22 September 2026
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