Remarkable…”: UN Hails India Life Expectancy, Per Capita Income Rise

New Delhi: 

Average life expectancy in India was 67.7 years in 2022 – up from 62.7 a year earlier – and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a jump of 6.3 per cent in 12 months, the United Nation’s Human Development Index, or HDI, report has said. The HDI report also indicated increases in expected years of schooling (to 12.6 per individual).

Overall, the country has a HDI score of 0.644 in 2022, which ranks it 134 of 193 in the UN’s report for 2023/24 – ‘Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarised World’. This places it in the ‘medium human development’ category.

Significantly, India’s HDI score for 2022 saw an increase after a drop the year before and a flat trend in the years prior. India’s 1990 HDI was 0.434, making the 2022 score a positive change of 48.4 per cent.HDI refers to assessment of average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development – long and healthy life, access to education, and decent standard of living.