About 460,000 Chinese each year die prematurely from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water . was revealed by a World Bank study.
The Financial Times reported today that the Chinese government, the bank's partner in the research project, had asked not to publish estimates for fear of protests and generate social instability.
version of the study available on the bank site specifies that some estimates of the economic and physical cost of pollution have been edited to uncertainties about calculation methods and their application.
The report estimates the cost, however, premature deaths linked to air pollution at 394 billion yen (51.8 billion dollars). If every life is worth 1 million yen, the death toll is 394,000.
The study indicates that the costs of cancer and deaths from diarrhea caused by water pollution amounted to 66 billion yen, bringing to 66,000 premature deaths this year.source: reuters
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