New Delhi, May 6 -- India has climbed three spots on the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 130 in 2023, up from 133 in 2022, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released on Tuesday.

India's HDI score rose from 0.676 to 0.685 during the year, keeping the country in the medium human development category but edging it closer to the high development threshold of 0.700, the report said.

India's latest HDI score of 0.685 is comparable to its neighbours Bangladesh (0.685), and higher than Nepal (0.622) and Pakistan (0.544).

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Sri Lanka (0.776) and Bhutan (0.698), however, remain ahead.

The HDI meas...