An estimated 99 p.c of the world's inhabitants lives in an space with air that exceeds the World Well being Group's (WHO) air high quality limits, which may hurt their well being.

The information was measured in over 6,000 cities that monitor air high quality, throughout 117 international locations. Folks from lower-income international locations, on common, expertise extra dangerous air, a brand new WHO report says.

"Present power considerations spotlight the significance of rushing up the transition to cleaner, more healthy power techniques," mentioned Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director-general. "Excessive fossil gas costs, power safety and the urgency of addressing the dual well being challenges of air air pollution and local weather change underscore the urgent want to maneuver quicker in the direction of a world that's a lot much less depending on fossil fuels."

This can be a creating story that might be up to date as extra data turns into obtainable.

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A brand new report from the World Well being Group says an estimated 99 p.c of the worldwide inhabitants lives in areas with dangerous air high quality. Above, smoke billows from a big metal plant in Internal Mongolia, China, on November 4, 2016.Kevin Frayer/Getty Pictures