India has been ranked 131 in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Index. It has slipped two places from the previous report. Last year India’s ranking was 129.
India is behind its neighbours Sri Lanka and China, who are ranked at 72 and 85. It is ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan, which are ranked at 133 and 154. Norway has topped the index, followed by Ireland and Switzerland, Hong Kong and Iceland completing the top five. India has dropped two ranks this year, standing at 131 out of 189 countries. If the Index were adjusted to assess the planetary pressures caused by each nation’s development, India would move up eight places in the ranking, according to the report.