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title: "Which country has the highest incidence of pollution linked deaths in the world?"  
description: "Which country has the highest incidence of pollution linked deaths in the world?"  
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published: 2017-12-29  
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# Which country has the highest incidence of pollution linked deaths in the world?

Which [country](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2337/vikram-s-the-country-s-first-privately-developed-rocket-will-launch-on-november-15) has the highest incidence of [pollution](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/332755/noise-pollution-health-effects-and-noise-control-measures) [linked](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/104773/how-to-create-a-linked-list) deaths in the [world](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2334/what-would-occur-if-the-world-were-to-divide-in-half)?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**Pollution is one of the major issues through which the whole world is fighting with and it’s very** disheartening to answer this question because **my own country is on the top of the list** where there is the highest incidence of pollution linked deaths.![Which country has the highest incidence of pollution linked deaths in the world?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/3d83b48b-8a9a-4a08-8320-2b673885636e/images/f0957ccb-6781-45fe-b61b-ec7a401ce25a.png)\
**10 HIGHEST POLLUTION-RELATED DEATH TOLLS (PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS)**

- India: 2,515,518 (24.5 percent)
- China: 1,838,251 (19.5 percent)
- Pakistan: 311,189 (21.9 percent)
- Bangladesh: 260,836 (26.6 percent)
- Nigeria: 257,093 (18.7 percent)
- Indonesia: 211,896 (13.5 percent)
- Russia: 172,536 (8.6 percent)
- United States: 155,155 (5.7 percent)
- Ethiopia: 129,450 (19.1 percent)


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