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SOME IMPORTANT INDICES

World Economic Outlook

Released By:

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

About the Report:

• Published twice a year in the months of April and October.
• Analyzes and predicts global economic developments during the near and medium-term.

Global Hunger Index 2020

Released By:

• Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe

About the Report:

• Measures and tracks hunger at the global, regional, and country levels.
• Parameters used:
  • Undernourishment: insufficient caloric intake.
  • Child Wasting
  • Child Stunting
  • Child Mortality: under the age of five.
• Determines hunger on a 100-point scale where 0 is the best possible score and 100 is the worst.
• India has a “serious” level of hunger, with a score of 27.2.
  • It ranks 94 out of 107 countries in the Index.
  • India features behind Nepal (73), Pakistan (88), Bangladesh (75), Indonesia (70).

Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report

Released By:

• World Bank

About the Report:

• Considers, the “new poor” will:
  • Be more urban poor.
  • Be more engaged in informal services and manufacturing and less in agriculture.
  • Live in congested urban settings and work in the sectors most affected by lockdowns and mobility restrictions.
• Many of the newly poor individuals will be from Sub-Saharan Africa and the South Asian region.
• Poverty estimation in India is carried out by NITI Aayog’s task force.

World Risk Index 2020

Released By:

• United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

About the Index:

• It is part of the World Risk Report 2020.
• It describes the disaster risk for various countries and regions through the multiplication of exposure and vulnerability.
• Among continents, Oceania is at the highest risk, followed by Africa and the Americas.
  • Vanuatu (South Pacific Ocean) is the country with the highest disaster risk worldwide.
  • Africa accounts for more than two-thirds of the most vulnerable countries.
  • India has ranked 89th among 181 countries and is fourth-most-at-risk in South Asia, after Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Human Capital Index 2020

Released By:

• World Bank

About the Index:

• Human capital consists of the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives.
• The index benchmarks key components of human capital across countries.
• Parameters used: Health and education data of children for 174 countries (up to March 2020; pre-pandemic period).
• It covers 98% of the world’s population.
• India is ranked at 116th from among 174 countries.

Global Innovation Index 2020

Released By:

• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Cornell University, INSEAD

About the Index:

• Provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 131 countries and economies around the world.
  • Includes political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication.
• 2020 Theme: Who will Finance Innovation?
• Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Netherlands are the top five countries.
• In Asian economies, China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam have made the most progress on the index.
  • India at the 48th position, ranks among top 50 innovative countries.

State of the Young Child in India Report

Released By:

• Mobile Creches, an NGO

About the Report:

• It measures health, nutrition and cognitive growth of children in the 0-6 years age group
• The Young Child Outcomes Index (YCOI) and the Young Child Environment Index (YCEI) are parts of the report.
• Parameters used:
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Stunting
  • Net attendance at the primary school level
• The overall India score is 0.585 on a scale of 0-1
• Kerala, Goa, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and Mizoram are among the top five states for the well-being of children.
  • Assam, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have scores below the country’s average.

Young Child Environment Index:

• Helps to understand the policy and environment enablers that influence a child’s well-being.
• Parameters used:
  • Poverty alleviation
  • Strengthening primary health care
  • Improving education levels
  • Safe water supply
  • Promotion of gender equity
• Kerala, Goa, Sikkim, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have secured the top five positions.
  • The overall India score is 0.672.

Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index 2020

Released By:

• SurfShark, an online privacy solutions provider.

About the Index:

• It is a global research on the quality of digital wellbeing in 85 countries (81% of the global population).
• Parameters used:
  • Internet affordability
  • Internet quality
  • Electronic infrastructure
  • Electronic security
  • Electronic government
• 7 out of 10 countries with the highest DQL are in Europe, with Denmark leading.
  • Scandinavian countries excel in offering high-quality digital wellbeing to their citizens.
  • Canada leads in American continents, Japan in Asia, South Africa in Africa and News Zealand in Oceania.
• India stands at the overall rank of 57 out of the 85 countries.

Quality of Life for Elderly Index

Released By:

• Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)
• The Index has been created by the Institute for Competitiveness at the request of EAC-PM.

About the Index:

• It identifies the regional patterns of ageing across Indian States and assesses the overall ageing situation in India.
• Four Pillars: Financial Well-being, Social Well-being, Health System and Income Security
• Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh are top-scoring regions in Aged and Relatively Aged States, respectively.
  • Chandigarh and Mizoram are top-scoring regions in Union Territory and North-East States category.

Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019-20

Released By:

• National Statistical Office (NSO)

About the Survey:

• An annual survey which has been constituted based on the recommendation of a committee headed by Amitabh Kundu.
• It maps the state of employment in the country.
• Collects data on several variables such as:
  • The level of unemployment
  • The types of employment and their respective shares
  • The wages earned from different types of jobs
  • The number of hours worked etc.
• It estimates employment and unemployment indicators in both usual status and Current Weekly Status (CWS) in both rural and urban areas annually.

AISHE-2020

Released By:

• Department of Higher Education.

About the Report:

• This Report provides key performance indicators on the current status of Higher education in the country.
• Uttar Pradesh has highest student enrolment in India, it has 49.1% male and 50.9% female students followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

SDG India Index 2020-21

Released By:

• NITI Aayog
• Developed in collaboration with the United Nations.

About the Index:

• Represents the articulation of the comprehensive nature of the Global Goals under the 2030 Agenda.
  • Monitors the country’s progress on the goals through data-driven assessment.
• Computes goal-wise scores (from 0-100) on the 16 SDGs for each State and Union Territory.
  • States and Union Territories are classified in four categories based on their SDG India Index score: Aspirant (0–49), Performer (50–64), Front-Runner (65–99), Achiever (100).
• Kerala retained its position at the top for the third time followed by Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.
  • Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam were the worst performing States.

Ease of Living & Municipal Performance Index 2020

Released By:

• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

About the Municipal Performance Index:

• It seeks to examine local government practices in municipalities across areas of services, finance, policy, technology and governance.
• The MPI examined the sectoral performance of 111 municipalities (with Delhi being assessed separately for NDMC, and the three Municipal Corporations).
• In Million+ category, Indore, Surat and Bhopal are the highest ranked.
  • In the Less than Million category, NDMC, Tirupati and Gandhinagar are top performers.
• About the Ease of Living Index:
  • It provides a comprehensive understanding of participating cities across India based on quality of life, economic-ability of a city, and its sustainability and resilience.
  • In Million+ Category, the top performers are Bengaluru, Pune and Ahmedabad.
    • Amritsar, Guwahati, Bareilly, Dhanbad and Srinagar are the worst performers.
  • In the Less than Million Category, top performers are Shimla, Bhubaneshwar and Silvassa.
    • Aligarh, Rampur, Namchi, Satna and Muzaffarpur are the worst performers.

India Innovation Index 2020

Released By:

• NITI Aayog

About the Index:

• The index has been developed on the lines of the Global Innovation Index (GII)
• It is developed to ameliorate the innovation ecosystem of Indian states & UTs and to design policies to drive innovation across regions.
• Parameters used:
  • Patents per million of population
  • Publication in scientific journals
  • Percentage of GDP spending on research
  • Demographic dividend
  • Level and quality of education
• Among the major states, Karnataka is the top scorer for two consecutive years followed by Maharashtra.
  • Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Bihar scored the lowest.
  • Himachal Pradesh topped the rankings of hill and North-East states
  • Delhi has scored the highest in the country (46.6), while Lakshadweep has the lowest score at 11.7.