India slides two steps on the Human Development Index. According to the Human Development Report 2021–22, India’s ranking on HDI is 132. In line with a global decline in HDI scores following the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s ranking on the index dropped from 130 in 2020 to 132 in 2021.
What is Human Development Index (HDI)?
The Human Development Index (HDI) measures long and healthy life, knowledge, and a good level of living are three essential aspects of human development in a summary form. The normalized indices for each of the three dimensions’ geometric means make up the HDI. The HDI underline and considers people and their potential in first place. Rather than relying solely on economic growth to gauge a nation’s development.
India saw a decrease in its HDI rating in 2020 compared to 2019
The study from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) states that India’s HDI rating for 2021 was 0.633, which was lower than the 0.732 global average. India saw a decrease in its HDI rating (0.642) in 2020 compared to the pre-Covid level in 2019. (0.645).
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The UNDP stated in a statement: “On the 2021/22 Human Development Index, tracking the global fall in human development, India ranks 132 out of 191 countries and territories.”
The statement read, “Human Development Index values have decreased in 90% of nations in 2020 or 2021, reversing much of the progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.”
A major factor in the recent dip in the Human Development Index is a decrease in life expectancy over the world, which fell from 72.8 years in 2019 to 71.4 years in 2021. When catastrophes like COVID-19 and the Ukraine War struck back-to-back and combined with wide-ranging social and economic transformations and perilous planetary changes, the last two years had a terrible effect on billions of people globally, the statement added.
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India lagged behind the global norms in 2021 for each of these four metrics
India’s life expectancy at birth in 2021 is reported to be 67.2 years. And its expected years of education to be 11.9 years. This means years of education to be 6.7 years, and its gross national product per capita (2017 PPP) to be $6,590. India lagged behind the global norms in 2021 for all metrics.
- Life expectancy (71.4 years),
- expected years of education (12.8 years), mean years of education (8.6 years), and
- gross national income per capita (2017 PPP$) of $16,752.
As per the statement, declining life expectancy from 69.7 to 67.2 years caused India’s HDI decline from 0.645 in 2019 to 0.633 in 2021. The mean number of years spent in education in India is 6.7 years, while the expected number is 11.9 years. The GNI per capita is $6,590.
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