Environmental Performance Index
Scores climate, air quality, biodiversity and sanitation. India ranks near the bottom, driven by air quality, coal dependence and biodiversity protection. The Environment Ministry rejected the 2022 edition outright, calling its indicators unscientific — a dispute worth stating alongside the number. India's ten-year change in score is nonetheless positive.
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Second from last, ahead only of Laos. Yale cites air quality, coal dependence and weak biodiversity protection. India's ten-year change in score is nonetheless positive at +7.47. The Environment Ministry rejected the 2022 edition outright as methodologically unsound. Trajectory: 141st (2016), 177th (2018), 168th (2020), 180th of 180 (2022), 176th (2024), 176th (2026).
Rank history
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| Period | Rank |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 176 |
| 2024 | 176 |
| 2022 | 180 |
| 2020 | 168 |
| 2018 | 177 |
| 2016 | 141 |
Source
Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy — https://epi.yale.edu/