185 children in Nigeria die daily from pollution-related pneumonia -UNICEF

Almost 185 children under the age of five die every day from pneumonia due to air pollution in Nigeria, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed.

As the world commemorates World Pneumonia Day, UNICEF revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of overall air pollution-related pneumonia deaths of children under-five in the world, and the highest number of household air pollution-related pneumonia deaths among children under-five.

In Nigeria, 78 percent of air pollution-related pneumonia deaths are among children under five – the highest proportion across all countries, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD 2019).