Using all of the above sources and extrapolating from current data coverage to a larger scale, a global DALY for the selected 49 low and middle-income countries was estimated for each of the top polluting industry sources and contaminants presented in this report. These DALY estimations are clearly limited in their accuracy by the data available. However, these ranges are becoming more accurate as better information is obtained from pollution sites all over the world. The calculations revealed in this report were produced and reviewed by members of the Blacksmith Institute’s Technical Advisory Board, a group of technical experts with.
