According to a report by Lancet, <\/span>most of the <\/span>pollution-related workplace deaths occur in countries with the highest GDP.<\/span><\/p>\n Relation between Workplace and pollution related deaths<\/b><\/p>\n Most of the 10 countries with the highest gross domestic product(GDP) recorded the highest number of mortalities at workplaces triggered by pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n In contrast, most of these countries had a low proportion of pollution deaths in the overall population: 90% of pollution-related deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This underscores the disparity in which these places treat pollution within the four walls of workplaces and outside.<\/span><\/p>\n Countries with Highest <\/b>Pollution Related Workplaces Deaths<\/b><\/p>\n Workplace-related premature deaths due to pollution were the highest in the United Kingdom (UK) among the top-10 GDP countries (Though overall the UK occupied the fourth-worst position among nearly 200 countries).<\/span><\/p>\n The United States \u2014 the world’s biggest economy \u2014 ranked 18th overall and 12th among countries with over 10 million people.<\/span><\/p>\n India, the sixth-largest economy, ranked 21st on this list with 12.15 pollution-related occupational deaths every 100,000 workers. Overall, India occupied the 40th position globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> India ranked 13th in terms of pollution-triggered deaths within the overall population with 169.5 mortalities per 100,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n The disparity in pollution triggered death figures within working places compared to the overall population denotes that workers in these so-called rich countries stand equally vulnerable as the workers, say in India and Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n This also denotes that the industry owners generally compromise on environmental issues to maximize profit.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cMost pollution-related workplace deaths in countries with highest GDP: Lancet report\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB on 30th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to a report by Lancet, most of the pollution-related workplace deaths occur in countries with the highest GDP. What does the Lancet report say on pollution-related workplace deaths? Relation between Workplace and pollution related deaths Most of the 10 countries with the highest gross domestic product(GDP) recorded the highest number… Continue reading Most pollution-related workplace deaths in countries with highest GDP: Lancet report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-187322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700807219,"cached_date":1704820721},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does the Lancet report say on <\/b>pollution-related workplace deaths?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What were the findings related to India?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of this report?<\/b><\/h5>\n