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Human Development Index 2021
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- Recently, the Human Development Index 2021 was released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
- For the first time on record, the global Human Development Index (HDI) has dropped for two years in a row.
- It was taking the world back to just after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement.
- The report said around 90 per cent of countries registered a decline in their HDI value in 2020 or in 2021.
- Switzerland, Norway and Iceland topped the HDI 2021.
- India ranked 132nd among 191 countries and territories on the HDI 2021-2022.
- Last year, India was ranked 131.
- India’s latest HDI value of 0.633 places the country in the medium human development category, lower than its value of 0.645 in the 2020 report.
- It is lower than the world average of 0.732.
- In 1990, Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq developed the Human Development Index (HDI).
- It measures average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development
- A long and healthy life
- Access to education and
- A decent standard of living.
- It is calculated using the following four indicators
- Life expectancy at birth
- Mean years of schooling
- Expected years of schooling, and
- Per capita Gross National Income.
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