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India Youth Development Index and Report 2017
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- The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, an Institute of National Importance has come out with Youth Development Index and Report 2017.
- The report was released by Ministry for Youth Affairs and Sports
- The objective of constructing the India Youth Development Index (YDI) 2017 is to track the trends in Youth Development across the States.
- Education, health and well-being, employment and opportunity, political participation, civic participation for young people and social inclusion are the multi-dimensional indicators used in calculating the India Youth Development Index and Report.
- Constructing Youth Development Index for the year 2017 was done using the latest definition of youth as used in Indian and World Youth Development Report of Commonwealth as well as using the Commonwealth Indicators in order to facilitate Global comparison.
- As per National Youth Policy – 2014 and World Youth Development Report of Commonwealth Youth are defined as those aged 15 to 29 in the national youth policy (2014).
- This age-group constitutes 27.5% of India’s population.
- The Youth Development Index (YDI), developed by the Commonwealth Secretariat, measures the status of young people in 183 countries around the world.
- India has been ranked 133rd out of 183 countries in the 2016 Global Youth Development Index (YDI).
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