India has been ranked 130 among 189 nations in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s human development indices (HDI) for the year 2017.
While the country was placed at the 131st spot in 2016, the report explicitly states that “it is misleading to compare values and rankings with those of previously published reports”.
According to the data, which is based on consistent methodology that shows real changes in values and ranks over time, India’s rank actually moved one place from 129/188 to 130/189.
India’s HDI went up from 0.636 in 2016 to 0.64 in 2017, but grew at a slower