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UNDP - Human Development Index 2025
May 9 , 2025
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- The 2025 HDR was titled “A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI”.
- India was ranked at 130 out of 193 countries in 2023 on the UNDP’s human development index.
- This marks a 3-spot improvement from 133 in the previous year.
- With an HDI value of 0.685 India remains in the “medium human development category”.
- India life expectancy at birth contributed among other factors to the improved ranking which was 71.7 years in 2022 and rose to 72 years in 2023.
- Expected years of schooling remain almost the same at nearly 13 over 2022 and 2023.
- Mean years of schooling rose marginally to 6.9 in 2023 from 6.6 in the previous year.
- Gross National Income per capita rose to $9047 from $8475 in 2022.
- India showed progress in reducing gender inequality finding itself ranked at 102 on the gender inequality index (GII) out of 193.
- It had 108th rank out of 166 countries in 2022.
- Inequality reduces India’s HDI by 30.7 per cent, one of the highest losses in the region.
- Bangladesh is at the same rank as India at 130, Nepal at 145 and Bhutan at 125 share space with India in ‘medium human development’ category.
- Pakistan’s score worsened from 164 to 168 and Afghanistan improved by a point ranking at 181.
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