Key information
Request reference number: MGLA160223-0299
Date of response:
Summary of request
You request
Please provide the data that makes up the Mayor's quote that ‘4,000+ Londoners die prematurely every year from air pollution’.
I am unable to find this online and the Office of National Statistics state that sadly 1 person had air pollution on their death certificate between 2001 and 2021.
Our response
This is a finding from the London Health Burden of Current Air Pollution and Future Health
Benefits of Mayoral Air Quality Policies review, which was commissioned by the GLA and
produced by the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London.
The full report is available on the GLA website.
As stated in the report, in 2019, in Greater London, 61,800 to 70,200 life years lost (the
equivalent of between 3,600 to 4,100 attributable deaths) were estimated to be attributable to anthropogenic fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), assuming health effects exist even at very low levels.
If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting
reference MGLA160223-0299.