{"id":90672,"date":"2020-09-18T01:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2020-09-18T01:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:47:04","slug":"india-ranks-116-in-world-banks-human-capital-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-ranks-116-in-world-banks-human-capital-index\/","title":{"rendered":"India ranks 116 in World Bank\u2019s Human Capital Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The World Bank has released the annual Human Capital Index(HCI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Human Capital Index: <\/strong>It was launched in 2018 as part of the Human Capital Project(HCP), a global effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children can achieve their full potential.<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>It measures how much capital each country loses through lack of education and health.The Index ranges between 0 and 1 with 1 meaning maximum potential is reached.<\/li><li><strong>Methodology: <\/strong>The Index is based on the following three pillars:<ul><li><strong>Survival: <\/strong>Share of children surviving past the age of 5&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>School:<\/strong><ul><li>Quantity of education (Expected years of schooling by age 18)<\/li><li>Quality of education (Harmonized test scores)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Health:<\/strong><ul><li>Adult survival rates (Share of 15-year-olds who survive until age 60)<\/li><li>Healthy growth among children (Stunting rates of children under 5).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>HCI 2020: <\/strong>It measures health and education data for 174 countries \u2013 covering 98% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 up to March 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Topped by: <\/strong>The index has been topped by Singapore.It was followed by Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Canada.<\/li><li><strong>India: <\/strong>It has been ranked at the 116th position in the index.However, India\u2019s score has increased to 0.49 from 0.44 in 2018.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The World Bank has released the annual Human Capital Index(HCI). Facts: Human Capital Index: It was launched in 2018 as part of the Human Capital Project(HCP), a global effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children can achieve their full potential. Aim: It measures how much capital each country loses through lack&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-ranks-116-in-world-banks-human-capital-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India ranks 116 in World Bank\u2019s Human Capital Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7909],"class_list":["post-90672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-human-capital-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704851950},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}