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16 May 2014updated 04 Oct 2023 10:25am

The most polluted cities on earth are not where you think

You wouldn’t know it from the recent election campaign, but Delhi has the worst air quality in the world.

By Jonn Elledge

Here’s some cheerful news from the World Health Organisation (WHO): just 12 per cent of the world’s city dwellers are breathing clean air. Around half, in fact, are exposed to air pollution at least two-and-a-half times safe levels, putting them at risk of what it reassuringly describes as “serious, long-term health problems”.

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