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If air pollution levels in the Capital adhered to World Health Organization (WHO) standards, a typical Delhiite would live 10 years longer, a report released by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute stated. The report, titled “Introducing the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI)”, said the average Indian would live 4.3 years longer if the country’s air quality met the WHO standards, which are more stringent than that of the Indian government. In comparison, the average resident of Beijing and Los Angeles would lose six years and one year respectively due to high pollution, the report also said. The report said that the concentration of fine particulate matter had increased by an overall 69% in India in the past two decades. The sustained exposure to particulate pollution used to reduce life expectancy by 2.2 years in 1998.