State rankings 2025: A closer look at assumptions and indicators

The report ranks performance of states in terms of 7 pillars - namely, economic, fiscal, financial, infrastructural, social, governance, and environment - and works out composite index to rank states

The report on the performance ranking of states for 2025, prepared by Care Edge Ratings — a subsidiary of Care Ratings — has received wide media coverage since its recent release. Although the report was produced by a private rating agency, it was accorded a measure of official status through a foreword by the CEO of NITI Aayog.

 

The report ranks the performance of states in terms of seven pillars — namely, economic, fiscal, financial, infrastructural, social, governance, and environment — and works out a composite index to rank the states. This is the second edition of the report by