Annual particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations in India averaged 50.6 micrograms per cubic meter of air (µg/m³) in 2024. While annual PM2.5 levels have fallen roughly 30 percent since 2018, they remain more than 10 times above the World Health Organization's recommended limit of five µg/m³.

The datasets contains date- and state-wise historically compiled data on air quality (by pollution level) in rural and urban areas of India from the year 2015 , as measured by Central Pollution Board (CPCB) through its daily (24 hourly measurements, taken at 4 PM everyday) Air Quality Index (AQI) reports.

The CPCB measures air quality by continuous online monitoring of various pollutants such as Particulate Matter10 (PM10), Particulate Matter2.5 (PM2.5), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen Oxide or Oxides of Nitrogen (NO2), Ozone (O3), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ammonic (NH3) and Lead (Pb) and calculating their level of pollution in the ambient air. Based on the each pollutant load in the air and their associated health impacts, the CPCB calculates the overall Air Pollution in Air Quality Index (AQI) value and publishes the data. This AQI data is then used by CPCB to report the air quality status i.e good, satisfactory, moderate, poor, very poor and severe, etc. of a particular location and their related health impacts because of air pollution.

Between 2000 and 2022, annual sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions in India grew by approximately 150 percent. During this same period, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions increased by almost 71 percent. Exposure to both these air pollutants can lead to a variety of health issues in humans, including respiratory problems. They are formed during the burning of fossil fuels in sources such as road transportation and power plants.

Air Quality Analysis Of Delhi
This dataset falls under the category Environmental Data Air Quality Data.
It contains the following data: Daily air quality data across cities
This dataset was scouted on 2022-02-05 as part of a data sourcing project conducted by TUMI. License information might be outdated: Check original source for current licensing. The data can be accessed using the following URL / API Endpoint: https://www.kaggle.com/yashvi/air-quality-analysis-of-delhi/data

The dataset contains air quality information for various cities across India. It includes parameters such as Air Quality Index (AQI), concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), as well as geographical coordinates and time stamps. This dataset enables analysis and comparison of air quality levels among different cities, aiding in understanding environmental health impacts and informing policy decisions.

The average number of deaths caused by air pollution in India was estimated at over two million in 2021. The number of deaths caused by air pollution in India has increased by almost 60 percent since 1990.

Data on India's Air Quality - state-wise air pollution due to PM 2.5, ozone and solid fuels, deaths due to pollution, and comparison with global peers.

Byrnihat was the most polluted city in India in 2024, with an average PM2.5 concentration of nearly 130 micrograms per cubic meter of air (μg/m³). This high level of pollution made the small industrial town on the Assam Meghalaya border the most polluted cities worldwide in 2024. Poor air quality across India India was the fifth-most polluted country in the world in 2024, with an average PM2.5 concentration of 50.6 μg/m³. That same year, the country's capital New Delhi was also the most polluted capital city in the world. Vehicle exhaust and wood burning are some of the main sources of particulate air pollution in India, together with soil, road and construction dust . Impacts of air pollution in India The severe air pollution in India can have detrimental health impacts on the country's population. Fine particle pollutants penetrate deeply in the lungs, causing respiratory problems and can even result in premature death. More than two million deaths are attibuted to air pollution in India every year.

Dataset

This dataset was created by G M Ganesh

Contents

Analysis of ‘Daily Air Pollution Data - India & USA’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/sumandey/daily-air-quality-dataset-india on 28 January 2022.

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Context

Air Pollution is a major health concern of many. However, the COVID-19 pandemic might have some role to play in bringing some changes to the overall quality of air.

Content

The dataset consists of pm2.5 measurements from Jan 2019 to May 2021 of the Major Cities of India & the United States. You also need to understand how pm2.5 classifies Air Quality.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks go to https://aqicn.org for making the data open-source and use it for research purposes.

Inspiration

This data could be used to answer several questions -

• How the air quality been pre and post-Covid.
• How Air Quality varies across different cities.
• Can you forecast the values for the next 1 month.

You are open to coming up with your own analysis as well.

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Air Pollution: Tax Revenue: % of GDP: Pollution data was reported at 0.000 % in 2021. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 2020. Air Pollution: Tax Revenue: % of GDP: Pollution data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 % from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2021, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 % in 2021 and a record low of 0.000 % in 2021. Air Pollution: Tax Revenue: % of GDP: Pollution data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s India – Table IN.OECD.ESG: Environmental: Environmentally Related Tax Revenue: Environmental Protection Domains: Non OECD Member: Annual.

The burning of fossil fuels in residential homes was responsible for a quarter of total outdoor PM2.5 pollution in India in 2021. The industry sector was the second-largest contributor to this harmful air pollutant, with a share of 15 percent.

Abstract

Polluted air is a major health hazard in developing countries. Improvements in pollution monitoring and statistical techniques during the last several decades have steadily enhanced the ability to measure the health effects of air pollution. Current methods can detect significant increases in the incidence of cardiopulmonary and respiratory diseases, coughing, bronchitis, and lung cancer, as well as premature deaths from these diseases resulting from elevated concentrations of ambient Particulate Matter (Holgate 1999).

Scarce public resources have limited the monitoring of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) concentrations in developing countries, despite their large potential health effects. As a result, policymakers in many developing countries remain uncertain about the exposure of their residents to PM air pollution. The Global Model of Ambient Particulates (GMAPS) is an attempt to bridge this information gap through an econometrically estimated model for predicting PM levels in world cities (Pandey et al. forthcoming).

The estimation model is based on the latest available monitored PM pollution data from the World Health Organization, supplemented by data from other reliable sources. The current model can be used to estimate PM levels in urban residential areas and non-residential pollution hotspots. The results of the model are used to project annual average ambient PM concentrations for residential and non-residential areas in 3,226 world cities with populations larger than 100,000, as well as national capitals.

The study finds wide, systematic variations in ambient PM concentrations, both across world cities and over time. PM concentrations have risen at a slower rate than total emissions. Overall emission levels have been rising, especially for poorer countries, at nearly 6 percent per year. PM concentrations have not increased by as much, due to improvements in technology and structural shifts in the world economy. Additionally, within-country variations in PM levels can diverge greatly (by a factor of 5 in some cases), because of the direct and indirect effects of geo-climatic factors.

The primary determinants of PM concentrations are the scale and composition of economic activity, population, the energy mix, the strength of local pollution regulation, and geographic and atmospheric conditions that affect pollutant dispersion in the atmosphere.

Geographic coverage

The database covers the following countries: Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola
Antigua and Barbuda Argentina
Armenia Australia
Austria Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus Belgium Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep.
Congo, Rep. Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep.
El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia
Faeroe Islands
Fiji
Finland France
Gabon
Gambia, The Georgia Germany Ghana
Greece
Grenada Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary Iceland India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Iraq
Ireland Israel
Italy
Jamaica Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Korea, Rep. Kuwait
Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Latvia
Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao, China
Macedonia, FYR
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Moldova Mongolia
Morocco Mozambique
Myanmar Namibia Nepal
Netherlands Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico Qatar
Romania Russian Federation
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovak Republic Slovenia
Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay Uzbekistan
Vanuatu Venezuela, RB
Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Yemen, Rep. Yugoslavia, FR (Serbia/Montenegro)
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Kind of data

Observation data/ratings [obs]

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

This replication package contains the data and code necessary to reproduce the results in "Environmental Regulations and Air Pollution in India: A Reexamination" by Olexiy Kyrychenko. It includes all analyses from the paper, along with the tables and figures from the Online Appendix.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Prateek

Released under Data files © Original Authors

Contents

The dataset contains the following:(i) District wise COVID-19 data from the states and union territories of India up to September 8, 2020.(ii) District wise socioeconomic and demographic data of India.(iii) Concentration of air pollutants (from January, 2016 to January, 2020) for a total of 202 monitoring stations.(iv) Centroids of the districts.(v) Coordinates of the air pollution monitoring stations in India

India Water Pollution: Tax Revenue: USD: Pollution data was reported at 42.886 USD mn in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 38.600 USD mn for 2013. India Water Pollution: Tax Revenue: USD: Pollution data is updated yearly, averaging 50.554 USD mn from Dec 2004 (Median) to 2014, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 94.614 USD mn in 2009 and a record low of 24.897 USD mn in 2006. India Water Pollution: Tax Revenue: USD: Pollution data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s India – Table IN.OECD.ESG: Environmental: Environmentally Related Tax Revenue: Environmental Protection Domains: Non OECD Member: Annual.

India Air Pollution: Tax Revenue per Capita: 2015 PPP: Resources data was reported at 0.000 USD in 2021. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 USD for 2020. India Air Pollution: Tax Revenue per Capita: 2015 PPP: Resources data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 USD from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2021, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.000 USD in 2021 and a record low of 0.000 USD in 2021. India Air Pollution: Tax Revenue per Capita: 2015 PPP: Resources data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s India – Table IN.OECD.ESG: Environmental: Environmentally Related Tax Revenue: Environmental Protection Domains: Non OECD Member: Annual.

Air pollution was linked to an estimated 70 percent of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) deaths in India in 2021. Meanwhile, around 40 percent of stroke and ischaemic heart disease deaths were linked to air pollution. There are more than two million deaths attributable to air pollution in India every year.