India ranks 134 in the Human Development Index 2011

Introduction to Human Development Index HDI by UNDP

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life.

Dimensions and calculation of Human Development Index

The HDI combined three dimensions up until its 2010 report

• Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity
 
• Knowledge and education, as measured by the Adult Literacy Rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary Gross Enrollment Ratio(with one-third weighting)
•  Standard of living, as indicated by the natural logarithm of Gross Domestic Product Per Capita at purchasing power parity.

Human Development report 2011

A United Nations study has ranked India at 134 out of 187countries in terms of Human Development Index even as it has observed that life expectancy at birth in the country has increased by 10.1 per cent a year over the last two decades.

In the 2010 Human Development Report, prepared by UNDP, India had been ranked at 119 out of 169countries. But the new report for 2011 says it is misleading to compare values and rankings with those of previously published reports, because the underlying data and methods have changed, as well as the number of countries included in the Human Development Index.

The report said India's Human Development Index (HDI) value for 2011 was 0.547 positioning the country in the 'medium human development category'.

Neighbouring Pakistan was ranked at 145 (0.504) and Bangladesh at 146 (0.500) respectively in terms of HDI.

However, the report pointed that the country's HDI of 0.547 was below the average of 0.630 for countries in the medium human development group and below the average of 0.548 for countries in South Asia.

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