Kanpur, India

Daily Pollution Levels on

PM2.5 Concentration

Meets National Standard (60 µg/m³)

Meets WHO Guideline (15 µg/m³)

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Annual Average Pollution Levels in Kanpur

Source: Air Quality Life Index

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Kanpur Weekly Cigarettes

Note: These are estimations based on Berkeley Earth’s “Air Pollution and Cigarette Equivalence,” https://berkeleyearth.wpengine.com/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/

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Top 10 Threats to Life Expectancy in India

Threat to Life Expectancy

Life Years Lost
0-0.1

0.1-0.5

0.5-1.0

1.0-2.0

2.0-3.0

3.0-4.0

Source: Global Burden of Disease (https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/), level-2 causes and risks data and WHO Life Tables (https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.LIFECOUNTRY?lang=en), were combined with the Life table method to arrive at these results. ‘PM2.5 relative to WHO Guideline’ bar displays the reduction in life expectancy relative to the WHO guideline as calculated by latest AQLI (2023 PM2.5 concentrations) data.
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In the News

In the News·Aug 25, 2025

AI-powered air quality sensors in Uttar Pradesh reveal disturbing pollution trend

via The Week
IIT Kanpur and IBM jointly develop an Artificial Intelligence-powered air quality sensor system to tackle pollution, covering most of UP.
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In the News·Aug 25, 2025

Kolkata beats other metros, reports more than 50% of good air days in 4 years: CSE study

via Times of India
Kolkata has emerged as the metro with the best air quality among six major Indian cities.
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In the News·Aug 25, 2025

Kanpur improves air quality ranking, effors on to increase green cover

via The Times of India
Kanpur has made a significant leap in the clean air survey ranking for the year 2024-25 by jumping to the 5th rank from its 17th spot in 2023-24.
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In the News·Aug 27, 2025

IIT-Kanpur, IBM to harness AI to fight air pollution in UP

via Times of India
IIT-Kanpur's Centre of Excellence in AI for Sustainable Cities and IBM, a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, have joined hands to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fight against air pollution in Uttar Pradesh.
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In the News·Aug 27, 2025

Poison in Kanpur: Report calls situation in city, surrounding districts an ‘emergency’, with chromium & mercury having entered residents’ bodies

via Down to Earth
Soil, ground water and surface water in Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat & Fatehpur found to contain heavy metals much above permissible limits.
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In the News·Aug 27, 2025

Preparing for Mahakumbh: Mega plan in place to tackle Ganga pollution in Kanpur

via Hindustan Times
The initiative will focus on the biological treatment of a total of 14 drains of Kanpur discharging into the Ganga, a UPPCB official said
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