After moving up three spots from the 2022 on the list of nations with the poorest air quality, India perform poorly on the air pollution index in 2022, as per IQAir Report. The five most polluted nations in 2022 were Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, Bahrain, and Bangladesh.
India fell three positions from the previous year’s ranking to 8th place with Burkina Faso and Kuwait claiming the 6th and the 7th positions respectively.
The other 2 countries in the top 10 are Egypt and Tajikistan.
14 out of the top 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India, as per the IQAir annual report on global air quality.
The 2022 World Air Quality Report examines the condition of air quality globally for that calendar year.
Data on PM2.5 air quality from 7,323 cities in 131 different nations, regions, and territories are included in this publication.
Top 20 most Polluted Cities in the World
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Hotan, China
- Bhiwadi, India
- Delhi, India
- Peshawar, Pakistan
- Darbhanga, India
- Asopur, India
- N’Djamena, Chad
- New Delhi, India
- Patna, India
- Ghaziabad, India
- Dharuhera, India
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Chapra, India
- Muzzafarnagar, India
- Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Greater Noida, India
- Bahadurgarh, India
- Faridabad, India
- Muzzafarpur, India
Over 30,000 regulatory air quality monitoring stations and low-cost air quality sensors were employe to get the data for this research.
Governmental entities, research institutes, non-profit organisations, educational institutions, private businesses, and citizen scientists all over the world run these monitoring stations and sensors.
13 of the 131 nations and regions profile in this report’s 2022 findings have succeed in obtaining PM2.5 levels at or below the WHO recommendation of 5 g/m3 for annual PM2.5 concentrations.
Although much has been done to reduce air pollution, as this research shows, there is still a long way to go before environmental equity can be achieve.
As per the WHO, people only live in 10% of the world’s nations, regions, and territories where the air they breathe is safe for their health.
