All About INDIA

HDI is the abbreviated form of Human Development Index. It was formulated and launched by Mahbub-ul-Haq, a Pakistani economist, followed by Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, in 1990. Human Development Index, HDI, is a comprehensive tool devised by the United Nations for measuring the levels of social and economic developments of the different countries and ranking them accordingly. It is a comparative measure of literacy, life expectancy, education and standard of living. Essentially, Human Development Index, HDI, makes use of four parameters for measuring and ranking countries according to their social and economic development which includes the Life Expectancy at Birth, Expected Years of Schooling, Mean Years of Schooling and Gross National Income per Capita.

HDI scores ranges from 0 to 1, with 1 being the best possible score for a country to attain. Prior to Year-2011, different method was used for calculating the Human Development Index, HDI, score of a nation but post Year-2011 a new method has been adopted for calculating the same.

HDI was essentially originated to determine the social and economic developments of countries, but it can also be used and is actually used for the determination of social and economic developments of various states and cities within a nation.

At present, the overall average HDI Score of India is 0.547.

Below provided is a list of Indian States & Indian Union Territories along with their respective HDI scores.