Human Development Index
Human Development Index
- The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical tool used to measure a country’s overall achievement in its social and economic dimensions.
- The social and economic dimensions of a country are based on the health of people, their level of educational attainment, and their standard of living.
- Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq created HDI in 1990 which was further used to measure the country’s development by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
- Calculation of the index combines four major indicators: life expectancy for health, expected years of schooling, mean of years of schooling for education and Gross National Income per capita for standard of living.
- Every year UNDP ranks countries based on the HDI report released in their annual report.
- HDI is one of the best tools to keep track of the level of development of a country, as it combines all major social and economic indicators that are responsible for economic development.
United Nations’ Human Development Index-2019:
- India dropped two ranks in the United Nations’ Human Development Index this year, standing at 131 out of 189 countries.
- Norway tops the index.
- Sri Lanka ranks 72, China at 85 and Bangladesh at 133 and Pakistan at 154.
- For the first time, the United Nations Development Programme introduced a new metric to reflect the impact caused by each country’s per-capita carbon emissions and its material footprint, which measures the amount of fossil fuels, metals and other resources used to make the goods and services it consumes.
Human Development Index
HDI
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Human Development Index-2019
India’s Rank in HDI
Top Rank in HDI
Human Development Index this year
Carbon emissions
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