A study reported by The Lancet Commission on pollution and health claims that pollution killed 2.3 million Indians in 2019. Pollution led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in  2019, according to a new Lancet study, nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone. It said India – where bad air kills more than a million people yearly – remained among the worst affected. An update of 2015 estimated premature deaths caused by pollution. Data for November shows air quality has been at its worst since India introduced its air quality index in 2015. The study found that the levels of PM2.5, the lungs damaging tiny particles in the air, indoors were “substantially higher” than those found on the nearest outdoor government monitors.