Chronic Respiratory Disease
Lung disease driven by smoke, dust and polluted air, concentrated in the poorest households.
Severity score
54.1
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma affect over half a billion people. Exposure to household cooking smoke, outdoor particulates, occupational dust and tobacco explains most of the burden, which falls hardest on women and workers in low income countries.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
68Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
74People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
44Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
20Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
34Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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