Human Development Index

Social capital and Budgets: The picture is varied, not just black or white

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

Best of BS Opinion: Covid's medium-term impact, myth of good dictator, more

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Covid's medium-term impact and India's Human Development Index loss

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

India ranks 132nd out of 191 in UNDP's human development index

UNDP report cites falling life expectancy as reason; global index falls for 2 yrs in a row

India will not miss estimated 11.1% FY23 nominal GDP growth: Bibek Debroy

Says country will the milestone assumed in the Budget despite the tense geopolitical situation

How the GDP magic failed

Book review of GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Change

Fixing India's global image

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

50 and beyond: How Bangladesh has fared in half a century of its history

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

India slips a spot in UN's human development index, ranks at 131 now

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

India's HDI rank slips two places to 131, still gets UNDP praise

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

The other population problem

Many parts of India are already ageing

Letters to BS: Three decades of economic reforms couldn't reduce inequality

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

Statsguru: Ranked 129th, India's disappoints on human development index

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

Ranked 129, India marginally improves in human development index in 2018

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

India climbs one spot to 129th in 2019 human development index: UNDP

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

UP, Bihar fall behind in human development index as Rajasthan, UP improve

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

Human Development Index: A snapshot

Though improvements are visible, India lingers behind

Positive signals, but

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

India's human development growth slows down in line with global trend

Economic factors and gender inequality continue to be major roadblocks

India did remarkably well in lifting millions out of poverty: UN report

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