A new study of air pollution measurements in China has found that at least 84 percent of the country’s population lives in areas with “unacceptably high” levels of air pollution, and that polluted air caused 1.37 million premature deaths in 2013.

The study was carried out by researchers from Peking University, and published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

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