Independent Data Says It’s 18% Worse Than COVID

DATA · DELHI AIR QUALITY — INDEPENDENT Independent Data Says It’s 18% Worse Than COVID IQAir’s own network — the least reliant on the government’s own monitors. 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 108.2 2017 113.5 2018 98.6 2019 84.1 Never matched since 2020 COVID lockdown 96.4 2021 92.6 2022 102.1 2023 108.3 2024 99.6 2025 ANNUAL PM2.5 (µG/M³) IQAir World Air Quality Reports, 2020–2025 editions. CSE’s separately-computed 2020 figure (95.1) agrees: 2020 beats 2025.