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Where does air pollution come from?

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233 points kamaraju | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 04:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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rdtsc ◴[02 Apr 25 06:19 UTC] No.43554101[source]▶
The deaths breakdown by region is interesting:

Africa: 1.8M

South America: 149k

North America: 179k

Australia: 4k

Europe: 434k

Asia: 6.3M

I guess to keep it positive, I'd say "Great job, Australia"!

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NhanH ◴[02 Apr 25 06:26 UTC] No.43554147[source]▶
Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths
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rdtsc ◴[02 Apr 25 07:07 UTC] No.43554333[source]▶
> Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths

6.3e6/4.8e9 = 0.00131

4e3/26e6 = 0.00015

About 9x as bad?

Not sure about 1x%, was that 1% worse? I am sorry I might have misunderstood that.

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1. timbit42 ◴[02 Apr 25 14:12 UTC] No.43556907[source]▶
1x% to me would mean between 10% and 19% inclusive.