New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- India moved up a rank and stood at 129 among 189 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 released on Monday, 9 December.
The HDI report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) titled-Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: inequalities in human development in the 21st Century-stated that India's HDI value increased by 50% from 0.431 to 0.647, which places it above the average for countries in the medium human development group (0.634) and also above the average for other South Asian countries (0.642).
The report noted that India's steady progress caps nearly three decades of rapid development, which have seen a dramatic reduction in absolute poverty, along with gains in life expe...