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World Air Quality Report is published by the Swiss organization IQAir every year.
The 2024 World Air Quality Report evaluates the global state of air quality for the year 2024.
This comprehensive report presents PM2.5 air quality data collected from 8,954 cities across 138 countries, regions, and territories.
India Specific Findings
iAccording to the 2024 World Air Quality Report, with an average PM 2.5 concentration of 91.8 μg/m3, Delhi continues to be the most polluted Capital city in the world.
iiaccording to the report, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India,
iiiByrnihat on the Assam-Meghalaya border being the most polluted.
ivThe other cities include Faridabad, Loni (Ghaziabad), Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Bhiwadi, Noida, Muzaffarnagar, New Delhi (Central Delhi) and Delhi (taking the average from the rest of the city).
vIndia is the fifth most polluted country in the world, with an average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 50.6 μg/m3 – 10 times higher than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 μg/m3. In 2023, it was the third most polluted country.
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