Statsguru: Ranked 129th, India's disappoints on human development index

In the human development rankings of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India stood at 129th position in 2018, along with some of the poorest countries in the world. The fine print underlines multiple pain points that needs to be addressed. 

Life expectancy, the average number of years a person spends in school, and incomes in India are close to the South Asian average. The region consists of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka, apart from India. The progress in terms of incomes has been the slowest among the three parameters (Chart 1).

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