The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by Indian economist Amartya Sen and Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990, and was published by the United Nations Development Programme.
2. Human Development Index
Human
Development
Index
• A measure of health,
education and standard
of living
• Created by Mahbub ul Haq
and Amartya Sen in 1990
3. HDI ranks for the year 2014
0.917
0.915
0.914
0.911
0.902
0.901
0.9
0.91
0.944
0.933
0.87 0.88 0.89 0.9 0.91 0.92 0.93 0.94 0.95
Norway
Australia
Switzerland
Netherlands
US
Germany
New Zealand
Canada
Singapore
Denmark
India has been ranked as 135
5. INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
• Development
• Growth
• Human Development
Index
• Other measures
6. HDI:
• Socio-economic
measure
• Non-monetary
factors
• Life expectancy
• Literacy rates
• Standard of living
(PPP)
7. HDI: India
• Inched up by less than
half a percent between
2012 and 2013
• Between 1980 and 2013,
India's HDI increased by
nearly 59%
• Since 2010, growth has
slowed down considerably
8. Some Parameters for measuring HDI:
Countries Life
Expectancy
at birth
years
Expected
Schooling
Years
Per capita
income
2014 PPP $
India 66.4 11.7 5,150
China 75.3 12.9 11,477
Brazil 73.9 15.2 14,275
Russia 68 14 22,617
South
Africa
56.9 13.1 11,788
Highly
advanced
countries
80.2 16.3 40,046
World 70.2 12.2 13,723
9. LOSS DUE TO INEQUALITY (% loss)
Countries Loss
India 29
Brazil 27
Russia 12
Highly advanced
12
countries
World 23
10. GENDER INEQUALITY
Countries Rank
Slovenia 1
Switzerland 2
Germany 3
China 37
Russia 52
Brazil 85
South Africa 94
India 127
12. HDI: INDIA STATISTICS
• Life expectancy: 58.5
(1990) to 66.4(2013)
• BRICS: South Africa has a
lower expectancy at 56.9
years
• Educational indicators:
slightly better with 11.7
expected years of
schooling
• Income measure that India
fails : $5,150 PPI
13. KEY SOLUTIONS
• Entrepreneurship
• Sustainable
development
• Utilising
Political Freedom
fairly
14. “The difference between what we
do and what we are capable of
doing would suffice to solve
most of the world’s problems.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Editor's Notes
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
Origin of HDI:
It was created by the Pakistani economist
Mahbub ul Haq and the Indian economist Amartya Sen in 1990