Dhaka's Air Quality Holds Moderate as City Ranks 30th Globally in Pollution

Air pollution contributes to approximately 7 million premature deaths worldwide annually, primarily from stroke, heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and lung cancer.

Each morning, millions of Dhaka residents breathe air that a single number attempts to summarize — and on this Monday in early July, that number was 68, a moderate reading that places the city 30th among the world's most polluted. The monsoon season offers a temporary reprieve, as it has for generations, but the rhythm of relief and deterioration continues against a global backdrop where seven million people die prematurely each year from the air they cannot choose not to breathe. Dhaka's relative comfort is real, but relative is the operative word — a city doing better than Lahore or Jakarta

Dhaka's Air Quality Holds Moderate as City Ranks 30th Globally in Pollution

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