China’s Air Is Much Worse Than India’s

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Eric Bellman,  China’s Air Is Much Worse Than India’s, World Bank Report Shows. India Real Time, June 23, 2015
blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/06/23/chinas-air-is-much-worse-than-indias-world-bank-report-shows/
("India’s capital may have the worst air quality in the world on some days, but a new report shows that nationally [and on average], the air in the world’s second-most-populous country is far less polluted than in China. * * * The bank’s 'Little Green Data Book' of environmental indicators, unveiled last week, included a new gauge of air pollution. To the standard measures of environmental health–including forest cover and carbon emissions–it added PM 2.5 levels * * * The World Bank data put the South Asian nation’s annual mean PM 2.5 at 32 micrograms per cubic meter. That’s three times the bank’s recommended level of 10 or less, but in line with the global average. It is also well below China’s mean annual exposure of 73 micrograms per cubic meter.  Of the 200 countries in the book, only the United Arab Emirates did worse than China")

Note: Little Green Data Book. World Bank,
data.worldbank.org/products/data-books/little-data-book/little-green-data-book