Impact of Global Air Pollution on Human Health: An Empirical Investigation

Abstract

Air pollution is major hazard of the world. Due to swift boost in urbanization and industrialization along with the massive volume of traffic over last some decades the air pollution is increasing in both developed and developing countries in the world. There are many cities in the world where exterior air pollution is observed do not satisfy the World Health Organization’s principle for adequate pollutant levels. One out of eight of global deaths are the result of air pollution exposure. Aflame fossil fuels discharges CO₂, a heat-trapping gas, into the ambience which is the main reason of change in global climate. This study gets penal data on CO₂ emission, health expenditure and life expectancy of 186 countries. We simply use penal least square which express positive relation of CO₂ emission and health expenditure with 170.59 magnitude and negative impact of CO₂ emission on life expectancy with -0.0472 value of coefficient. The study also provides some grasp suggestions for collective decision to mitigate the pollution.