The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released the human development index (HDI) 2019 on December 9, 2019. The report was published with the theme of “Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century”.
India climbed one spot to 129 among 189 countries in the index. India was ranked 130 last year.
India’s HDI for 2018 improved to 0.647 compared to 0.640 the year before. However, when the value is discounted for inequality, the HDI falls to 0.477, a loss of 26.3 per cent due to inequity in the distribution of the HDI dimension indices.
India has a GII (Gender Inequality Index) value of 0.501, ranking it 122 out of 162 countries in the 2018 index.
As per the report I27.1 crore people were lifted out of poverty in India from 2005-06 to 2015-16.
South Asia was the fastest growing region witnessing 46% growth during 1990-2018, followed by East Asia and the Pacific at 43%. No other region had experienced such rapid human development progress .
Some Other features of the report
Today, about 600 million people live on less than $1.90 a day.1 There has been considerable progress in the fight against poverty in recent decades. The extreme income poverty rate fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 8.6 percent in 2018.
