By Bianca Britton, CNN, March 5, 2019
Asia has dominated a new list of the world’s most polluted cities of 2018. According to the report from AirVisual, which measured 3,000 cities, air pollution will cause around 7 million premature deaths globally next year and have a major economic impact. It noted that although South Asian countries and China were the worst affected, air pollution is a global issue.
Here are the 100 most polluted cities according to the report, starting with Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi. 22 of the top 30 are in India.