世界衛(wèi)生組織周一警告稱,每年暴露在室內(nèi)和室外的有毒空氣導(dǎo)致大約60萬名15歲以下兒童死亡。
Data from the UN health body shows that every day, 93 percent of children under the age of 15 – a full 1.8 billion youngsters, including 630 million under the age of five – breath dangerously polluted air.
來自聯(lián)合國(guó)衛(wèi)生機(jī)構(gòu)的數(shù)據(jù)顯示,每天有93%的15歲以下兒童-18億年輕人,包括6.3億5歲以下的兒童-呼吸有害的空氣。
This has tragic consequences: In 2016 alone, some 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air, the WHO report found.
這帶來了悲慘的后果:世衛(wèi)組織的報(bào)告發(fā)現(xiàn),僅在2016年,就有60萬兒童死于污染空氣造成的急性下呼吸道感染。
"Polluted air is poisoning millions of children and ruining their lives," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
“被污染的空氣正在毒害數(shù)百萬兒童,并毀了他們的生活,”世衛(wèi)組織總干事泰德羅斯·阿德哈諾姆·蓋布耶斯在一份聲明中表示。
According to WHO data, more than nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe dangerously toxic air, causing some seven million premature deaths each year.
根據(jù)世衛(wèi)組織的數(shù)據(jù),地球上每10人中就有9人呼吸危險(xiǎn)的有毒空氣,每年造成約700萬人過早死亡。
Air pollution is especially dangerous for children, and accounts for nearly one in 10 deaths among children under five around the globe, the report found.
報(bào)告發(fā)現(xiàn),空氣污染對(duì)兒童尤其危險(xiǎn),全球五歲以下兒童中近十分之一的人死于空氣污染。
WHO’s study, which examined the health toll on children breathing health-hazardous levels of both outdoor and household air pollution, focused on dangerous particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5).
世衛(wèi)組織的研究調(diào)查了室外環(huán)境和家庭空氣污染對(duì)世界兒童健康的危害,重點(diǎn)關(guān)注直徑小于2.5微米(PM2.5)的危險(xiǎn)顆粒物。
These include toxins like sulfate and black carbon, which pose the greatest health risks since they can penetrate deep into the lungs or cardiovascular system.
這些毒素包括硫酸鹽和炭黑等有毒物質(zhì),由于它們能深入肺部或心血管系統(tǒng),因此對(duì)健康造成的危害最大。
The report found that children in poorer countries are far more at risk, with a full 98 percent of all children under five in low – and middle-income countries exposed to PM2.5 levels above WHO air quality guidelines.
報(bào)告發(fā)現(xiàn),貧窮國(guó)家的兒童面臨的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)要大得多,在低收入和中等收入國(guó)家,五歲以下兒童中有98%的人暴露在PM2.5水平高于世衛(wèi)組織空氣質(zhì)量準(zhǔn)則的環(huán)境中。
That compares to 52 percent in high-income countries, WHO said.
相比之下,高收入國(guó)家的這一比例為52%。