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PRC: Health data

Economic costs of air pollution

World Bank has estimated that in the late 1990s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) lost between 3.5% and 7.7% of its potential economic output as a result of the health effects of pollution on the country's workforce.

Source: "Urban air pollution: A great leap forward," The Economist, 13 May 2002

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