Resource detail

India’s human development index (HDI) ranking for 2015 puts Asia’s third largest economy among a group of countries classed as “medium” in the list, as opposed to “low” in the 1990s, thanks to factors such as an increase in life expectancy and mean years of schooling in the past 25 years. But the bad news from the report released on 21 March 2017 in Stockholm is that regional disparities in education, health and living standards within India or inequality in human development shave off 27% from India’s HDI score. As it stands, India is ranked 131 out of 188 countries in a list that is topped by Norway.