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Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.    0, Vol. Issue () : 7    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-016-0849-7
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Assessing the premature death due to ambient particulate matter in China’s urban areas from 2004 to 2013
Guoxia MA1,Jinnan WANG1,*(),Fang YU1,Xiaomin GUO2,Yanshen ZHANG1,Chao LI1
1. Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing 100012, China
2. Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing 100035, China
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Abstract

The number of annual premature deaths attributable to China’s air pollution ranged from 350000 to 520000 from 2004 to 2013, while the figure in 2013 reached 9.9% of total deaths in China.

In 2004, the life expectancy potential years of life lost was 69.6 and 1.85 years respectively in contrast to 74.4 and 0.67 years respectively in 2013.

The number of PYLL attributable to air pollution in the northern regions is found to be larger than that of the southern regions.

The Environmental Burden of Disease (EBD) approach for outdoor air pollution has been used to calculate premature deaths and average potential years of life lost attributable to air pollution in China over the past 10 years with differences between the North and the South of the country being analyzed. The results indicate that: (1) Between 2004 and 2013, annual premature deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution in China ranged from 350000 to 520000. In 2013, deaths resulting from air pollution in China represented 9.9% of the country’s total deaths. (2) In 2004, the average life expectancy of the Chinese population and the number of potential years of life lost (PYLL) attributable to air pollution was 69.6 and 1.85 years respectively as compared to 74.4 and 0.67 years respectively in 2013. (3) The number of the PYLL attributable to air pollution in the northern regions of China is found to be larger than that of the southern regions. The PYLL figures of the northern and southern regions in 2004 were 2.3 and 1.8 years, respectively, with a difference of 0.5 years, as compared to 1.4 and 0.7 years respectively with a difference of 0.7 years in 2013.
Keywords Air pollution      Public health      Premature deaths      Health assessment     
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Issue Date: 12 June 2016
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Guoxia MA,Jinnan WANG,Fang YU, et al. Assessing the premature death due to ambient particulate matter in China’s urban areas from 2004 to 2013[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 0, (): 7.
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ageX populationnPx deathnDx death ratenMx probability of deathnQx alivelx life table deathndx person-years livednLx total number of person-years livedTx life expectancyei
0~ 5375279 15904 0.0030 0.0030 100000 296 99749 8078756 80.79
1~ 25561191 9697 0.0004 0.0015 99704 151 398514 7979008 80.03
5~ 30565659 5300 0.0002 0.0009 99553 86 497549 7580494 76.15
10~ 32807526 5964 0.0002 0.0009 99467 90 497107 7082945 71.21
15~ 53589992 10936 0.0002 0.0010 99376 101 496628 6585837 66.27
20~ 71058518 18001 0.0003 0.0013 99275 126 496061 6089209 61.34
25~ 57679956 18474 0.0003 0.0016 99149 159 495350 5593149 56.41
30~ 56010957 25046 0.0004 0.0022 98991 221 494401 5097799 51.50
35~ 65025365 45330 0.0007 0.0035 98770 344 492989 4603398 46.61
40~ 63786496 70321 0.0011 0.0055 98426 541 490777 4110410 41.76
45~ 53629541 94613 0.0018 0.0088 97885 860 487275 3619633 36.98
50~ 39186388 123132 0.0031 0.0156 97025 1512 481345 3132358 32.28
55~ 37437535 170428 0.0046 0.0225 95513 2150 472190 2651013 27.76
60~ 26036917 195791 0.0075 0.0369 93363 3446 458202 2178823 23.34
65~ 17910329 234251 0.0131 0.0633 89918 5694 435353 1720621 19.14
70~ 14777260 347803 0.0235 0.1111 84224 9361 397716 1285269 15.26
75~ 10531503 416652 0.0396 0.1800 74863 13476 340624 887553 11.86
80~ 5762828 386359 0.0670 0.2871 61387 17624 262874 546929 8.91
85~ 2584543 398188 0.1541 1.0000 43763 43763 284054 284054 6.49
Tab.1  Abridged Life Table of Urban Citizens for the Sixth National Population Census of 2010
Fig.1  Average PM10 concentration in Chinese and American cities<FootNote>

1) The American data is collected from 511 monitored stations (http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/pm.html) and the Chinese data is the population-weighted average value of the cities at county level and above

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Fig.2  Premature deaths attributable to China’s air pollution from 2004 to 2013
Fig.3  Mortality rate and premature deaths attributable to air pollution in China in 2013
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