Nine in 10 people breathing polluted air: Your fact box on Air pollution

Polluted air, according to experts is causing a health emergency across the globe.

When one inhales polluted air, they are likely to experience difficulty in breathing, wheezing, coughing. They can also have asthma and other worse, cardiac conditions including heart diseases and cancers.

Children are most at risks and are likely to suffer the effects of air pollution.

According to the World Health Organisation, 93 per cent of children breathe polluted air. Only one in every 10 people on across the world gets to breathe fresh air, meaning nine out of 10 people around the world breathe polluted air linked to diseases that shorten their lifespan.

According to the World Health Organization, every year around 7 million premature deaths are attributable to air pollution. Estimates form UN reveals that 800 people die as a result every hour or 13 every minute.

Burning fossil fuels for power, transport and industry is said to be a major cause of air pollution and the main source of carbon emissions that results in global warming

Household air pollution is also noted as particularly harmful to women and children due to their traditional home-based roles in many cultures.

In 2016, household air pollution was responsible for 3.8 million deaths, and 7.7 per cent of the global mortality. Africa and South-East Asia had the highest mortalities

UN estimates that 60 per cent of household air pollution-related deaths globally are among women and children where more than half of all pneumonia deaths in children under five can be attributed to indoor air pollution.

Cost of reducing air pollution, experts note could save the world $77.5 trillion.

Experts, however, said solutions to beating air pollution include planting of trees and properly managing waste in landfills.