{"id":21655,"date":"2025-03-12T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21655"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:12:25","slug":"world-air-quality-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-air-quality-report\/","title":{"rendered":"World Air Quality Report 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World Air Quality Report Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>With an average PM 2.5 concentration of 91.8 \u03bcg\/m3, Delhi continues to be the most polluted Capital city in the world, according to the 2024 World Air Quality Report.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Air Quality Report 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>World Air Quality Report is published by the Swiss organisation <strong>IQAir<\/strong> every year. The 2024 World Air Quality Report evaluates the global state of air quality for the year 2024.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This comprehensive report presents <strong>PM2.5 air qualit<\/strong>y data collected from 8,954 cities across 138 countries, regions, and territories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>India Specific Findings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the 2024 World Air Quality Report, with an average PM 2.5 concentration of 91.8 \u03bcg\/m3, Delhi continues to be the most polluted Capital city in the world.<\/li>\n<li>According to the report, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India, with <strong>Byrnihat on the Assam-Meghalaya border being the most polluted<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The 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).<\/li>\n<li>India is the<strong> fifth most polluted country<\/strong> in the world, with an average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 50.6 \u03bcg\/m3 \u2013 10 times higher than the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 \u03bcg\/m3. In 2023, it was the third most polluted country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Air Quality Report 2024 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the rank of India in the world air quality report 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>India ranks fifth in global air pollution in 2024, following Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Congo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>Who published the World air quality Report 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>The World Air Quality Report 2024 was published by IQAir, a Swiss air quality monitoring company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Which is the most polluted city in the world in 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Byrnihat, on the Assam-Meghalaya border, is the most polluted city globally in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4. <\/strong>What is the Global air Report 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>The Global Air Report 2024 is IQAir&#8217;s analysis of global air quality, highlighting pollution trends and challenges worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/delhi-world-most-polluted-capital-9880298\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Air Quality Report, published by the Swiss organisation IQAir, evaluates the global state of air quality for the year 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}