Human Development Index

India's ranking on the UN's HDI has remained more or less unchanged, suggesting the country is doing no better or worse than others, though most are growing much slower than India, writes T N Ninan

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While some of the HDI loss will survive into the future, it does not necessarily affect India's index rank in relation to others, which is down by just one over the six years to 2021, writes T N Ninan

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In the last one year, India has slipped on more than a dozen global indices leading the government to look for ways to improve its international rankings

Dhaka's justification for breaking away from West Pakistan is now self-evident. If it has done better than New Delhi in 50 years, it has completely outpaced Pakistan on every metric, writes T N Ninan

Human Development Index is the measure of a nation's health, education, and standards of living.

India's Human Development Index or HDI position has marginally dropped after improving last year

Many parts of India are already ageing

India's ranking in Human Development Index has hovered around 130 with no perceptible improvement for many years

Life expectancy, the average number of years a person spends in school, and incomes in India are close to the South Asian average

The overall index, given in the 2019 HDI report of UNDP, showed that India scored 0.647 in 2018, as against 0.643 in the previous year. The score is calculated in the range of zero to one

In India, 27.1 crore people were lifted out of poverty from 2005-06 to 2015-16, UNDP India resident representative Shoko Noda said

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar did poorly on the human development index (HDI), as smaller states Haryana and Himachal improve.

Though improvements are visible, India lingers behind

India still has a lot of catching up to do in HDI

Economic factors and gender inequality continue to be major roadblocks

Between 1990 and 2017, India's HDI value increased from 0.427 to 0.640, an increase of nearly 50 per cent