Measuring progress beyond GDP — the indices that track health, education and living standards.
Published annually by the UNDP in its Human Development Report, the HDI is a composite index combining three dimensions: life expectancy (health), mean and expected years of schooling (education), and Gross National Income per capita (standard of living). India is typically placed in the "medium human development" category.
Also developed with the UNDP and Oxford's OPHI, the MPI captures poverty beyond income alone, across three dimensions — health, education, and standard of living — using 10 indicators (nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, sanitation, etc.). NITI Aayog releases a National MPI for India.
India tracks a range of composite indices for policy purposes — the Gender Inequality Index (GII), the School Education Quality Index (SEQI), and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index published by NITI Aayog, which ranks States and UTs on their progress toward the SDGs.
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