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    The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development published by the UNDP. It measures a nation's status in health, education, and income. For health, it uses life expectancy; for education, it considers mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling; and for income, it takes Gross National Income per capita. Countries are ranked between 0-1 based on these factors and grouped into tiers of very high, high, medium, and low human development. The HDI highlights differences within and between countries to stimulate discussion on policies affecting health and education.

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    The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development published by the UNDP. It measures a nation's status in health, education, and income. For health, it uses life expectancy; for education, it considers mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling; and for income, it takes Gross National Income per capita. Countries are ranked between 0-1 based on these factors and grouped into tiers of very high, high, medium, and low human development. The HDI highlights differences within and between countries to stimulate discussion on policies affecting health and education.

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    The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development published by the UNDP. It measures a nation's status in health, education, and income. For health, it uses life expectancy; for education, it considers mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling; and for income, it takes Gross National Income per capita. Countries are ranked between 0-1 based on these factors and grouped into tiers of very high, high, medium, and low human development. The HDI highlights differences within and between countries to stimulate discussion on policies affecting health and education.

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    The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development published by the UNDP. It measures a nation's status in health, education, and income. For health, it uses life expectancy; for education, it considers mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling; and for income, it takes Gross National Income per capita. Countries are ranked between 0-1 based on these factors and grouped into tiers of very high, high, medium, and low human development. The HDI highlights differences within and between countries to stimulate discussion on policies affecting health and education.

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    How is it defined?

    The HDI data is regularly published by the United Nations Development Programme.
    The HDI is a summary composite measure of a country's average achievements in three basic
    aspects of human development: health, knowledge and standard of living. It is a measure of a
    country's average achievements in three dimensions of human development:

    a long and healthy life, as measured by life expectancy at birth;


    knowledge, as measured by mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling; and
    a decent standard of living, as measured by GNI per capita in PPP terms in US$.

    The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension, called "goalposts", then shows
    where each country stands in relation to these goalposts. This is expressed as a value between
    0 and 1. The higher a country's human development, the higher its HDI value.

    HDI is divided into four tiers:


    very high human development (0.8-1.0), high human development (0.7-0.79), medium human
    development (0.55-.70), and low human development (below 0.55)

    What are the consequences and implications?

    The HDI is used to capture the attention of policy-makers, the media and nongovernmental
    organizations, and to change the focus from the usual economic statistics to human outcomes.
    It was created to re-emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria
    for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth.

    The HDI is also used to question national policy choices and to determine how two countries
    with the same level of income per person can have widely different human development
    outcomes. For example, two countries may have similar incomes per person, but have
    drastically differing life expectancy and literacy levels, such that one of the countries has a much
    higher HDI than the other. These contrasts stimulate debate on government policies concerning
    health and education to determine why what can be achieved in one country is beyond the
    reach of the other.

    The HDI is also used to highlight differences within countries, between provinces or states, and
    across genders, ethnicities and other socioeconomic groupings. Highlighting internal disparities
    along these lines has raised the national debate in many countries.

    according to the Human Development Report (HDR) 2020 released by the United Nations
    Development Program (UNDP).India ranked 131 among 189 countries on the Human
    Development Index (HDI) for 2019, slipping two places from the previous year

    Overall Performance: HDI value for 2019 is 0.645, which puts the country in the medium human
    development category,
    Long and Healthy Life: Life expectancy for Indian’s at birth was 69.7 years in 2019

    Access to Knowledge: The expected years of schooling in India was 12.2 years,

    A Decent Standard of Living: In terms of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, India at USD
    6,681 fared better than some others in 2019, despite a fall over the previous year

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