Human Development Index (HDI)
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic developed and compiled by the United Nations to measure and various countries' levels of social and economic development. The Human Development Index was established to place emphasis on individuals, more precisely on their opportunities to realize satisfying work and lives. Evaluating a country's potential for individual human development provides a supplementary metric for evaluating a country's level of development besides considering standard economic growth statistics, such as gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike GDP per capita or per capita income, the HDI takes into account how income is turned into education and health opportunities and therefore into higher levels of human development.
The HDI ranks countries into four tiers of human development - Mean years of schooling, Expected years of schooling, Life expectancy at birth, Gross National Income (GNI) per capita.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic developed and compiled by the United Nations to measure and various countries' levels of social and economic development. The Human Development Index was established to place emphasis on individuals, more precisely on their opportunities to realize satisfying work and lives. Evaluating a country's potential for individual human development provides a supplementary metric for evaluating a country's level of development besides considering standard economic growth statistics, such as gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike GDP per capita or per capita income, the HDI takes into account how income is turned into education and health opportunities and therefore into higher levels of human development.
The HDI ranks countries into four tiers of human development - Mean years of schooling, Expected years of schooling, Life expectancy at birth, Gross National Income (GNI) per capita.
SUBJECT Variables
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
- India is currently ranked on the 131st position on the table amongst 189 countries in HDI 2019, an improvement of only 5 places over 7 years.
- India's performance score on the Human Development Index 2019 is 0.645 which equates to 64 percentage points. The fact that the performance score has not moved since 2017 only shows that India has not made much progress in improving its human capital.
- India's performance on the HDI has remained lower than the world average over the last 7 years
INDEX COMPONENTS
Life Expectancy at Birth is the average number of years that a newborn is expected to live if current mortality rates continue to apply. The data values covered within each year's index pertain to the observations in the previous year.
- If the current mortality rates continue to apply, a child born in India in 2019 expected to live upto the age of 69.7 years.
- The lifespan of a child in India has improved by 4 years since 2012 but is yet below the world average of 72.8 years in 2019
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