"Remarkable...": UN Hails India Life Expectancy, Per Capita Income Increase
NDTV
The UN report also said India had demonstrated "progress in reducing gender inequality", flagging a Gender Inequality Index of 0.437, which is better than the global average.
Average life expectancy in India was 67.7 years in 2022 - up from 62.7 a year earlier - and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a jump of 6.3 per cent in 12 months, the United Nation's Human Development Index, or HDI, report has said. The HDI report also indicated increases in expected years of schooling (to 12.6 per individual).
Overall, the country has a HDI score of 0.644 in 2022, which ranks it 134 of 193 in the UN's report for 2023/24 - 'Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarised World' -and places it in the 'medium human development' category. Significantly, India's HDI score for 2022 saw an increase after a drop the year before and a flat trend in the years prior.
HDI refers to assessment of average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development - long and healthy life, access to education, and decent standard of living.
