According to the report commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Lancet medical journal and backed by United Nations, India is at 77th position in the Sustainability Index 2020 and 131st on the Flourishing Index 2020.
Hindi has become the 3rd most spoken language of the world in 2019 with 615 million speakers while English stood at the first position with 1,132 million speakers as per the 22nd edition of the world language database Ethnologue.
Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru (IIMB) ranked third rank in the global list of Top Business Schools after HEC Paris (France) and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) of 2020.
India is on 40th out of 53 countries on a global intellectual property index, even as the country has shown improvement in terms of scores when it comes to the protection of IP and copyright issues, a top American industry body.
Medical information of over 120 million Indian patients have been leaked and made freely available on the Internet, according to a recent report published by Greenbone Sustainable Resilience.
Telangana has turned up as the best performing state in sustainable economic growth and decent work for all on Sustainable Development Goals India Index 2019, according to United Nations Development Programme.
India has been on the top of TomTom Traffic Index 2019 with 4 cities in top 10 most congested cities globally. The cities of India are Bengaluru(1st), Mumbai(4th), Pune(5th), New Delhi(8th).
After China, India is ranked as the second largest emerging Green Bond Market by Economic Survey. India also joined IPSF( International Platform on Sustainable Finance ) in 2019 to measure environmentally sustainable investments.
Transparency International has launched Corruption Perception Index on January 23, 2020, based on data collected in 2019. The was released during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Denmark and New Zealand topped the index as they are the most honest countries.
Other countries in the top level are Norway (7th), the Netherlands (8th), Germany and Luxembourg (9th). India slipped two positions to 80th in the index along with Benin, China, Morocco, and Ghana. India’s neighboring country Pakistan ranked 120 on the list. A total of 180 countries have been placed in public sector corruption cases in this index.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the 12th edition of the “Democracy Index 2019: A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest“. Norway topped the Index while North Korea was placed at the bottom of the list. India has been placed at 51st position among 167 countries in the Index and was included in flawed democracy.
Bangladesh has improved its ranking by 8 points and ranked at 80th position compared to 88th position in 2018. However, Bangladesh continues to be placed in the category of hybrid democracies. According to the EIU methodology hybrid regimes are marked by substantial electoral irregularities and government pressure on opposition parties.
According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s measure of democracy, almost one-half of the world’s population live in a democracy of some sort, although only 5.7% reside in a full democracy. More than one-third of the world’s population live under authoritarian rule, with a large share being in China.