Indices and Organisations: Memorize Faster

In the last post, we wrote about the names of reports published by various organisations and their importance in UPSC exams. In this post, as a continuation, we have prepared the list of indices and associated organisations. For example, Human Development Index (HDI) is prepared by UNDP as part of Human Development Report.

What is an index?

An index a sign or measure of something (plural: indices). In economics and finance, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources.

Qn UPSC 2017 CSE Prelims: Which of the following gives ‘Global Gender Gap Index’ ranking to the countries of the world?
(a) World Economic Forum
(b) UN Human Rights Council
(c) UN Women
(d) World Health Organization

Global Indices and India’s Ranking: A comparative study

 

Sl.No	Index	Organisation	India’s Ranking
1.	Child Development Index	Save the Children	112/141
2.	Corruption Perceptions Index	Transparency International (TI)	76/168
3.	Democracy Index	Economist Intelligence Unit	35/167
4.	Ease of doing business index	World Bank Group	130/185
5.	Education Index	UNDP	135/188
6.	EF English Proficiency Index	EF Education First	20/70
7.	Environmental Democracy Index (EDI)	The Access Initiative (TAI) and the World Resources Institute(WRI)	24/70
8.	Environmental Performance Index	WEF (World Economic Forum)	155/178
9.	Gender Empowerment Measure	UNDP	128/177
10.	Gender Inequality Index	UNDP	127/142
11.	Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)	WEF(World Economic Forum)	71/144
12.	Global Entrepreneurship Index	Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute	98/132
13.	Global Hunger Index	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	80/104
14.	Global Innovation Index	Cornell University. INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	81/141
15.	Global Peace Index	Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)	141/163
16.	Global Slavery Index	Walk Free Foundation	4/167
17.	Global Terrorism Index	Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)	6/124
18.	Happy Planet Index	New Economics Foundation (NEF)	32/151
19.	Human Development Index	UNDP	130
20.	Human Poverty Index	UNDP	N.A
21.	Index of Economic Freedom	The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation	128/178
22.	Index of Freedom in the World	Freedom House	Free
23.	Networked Readiness Index	WEF (World Economic Forum)	89/143
24.	Press Freedom Index	Reporters Without Borders	133/180
25.	Social Institutions and Gender Index	OECD Development Centre	96/102
26.	Starting a Business Index	World Bank Group	155
27.	Travel &Tourism  Competitiveness Index (TTCI)	WEF (World Economic Forum)	52/141
28.	Web index	World Wide Web Foundation	48/86
29.	Were to born index	Economist Intelligence Unit	66/80
30.	World Giving Index	Charities Aid Foundation	106/145
31.	Baseline Profitability Index	Daniel Altman in Foreign Policy magazine	1/110
32.	Index of Investor Protection	World Bank	7/189
33.	Global Gender Gap Index	World Economic Forum	108/144

Note: India’s ranking in most indices is based on the latest available statistics as we first published the post. We may not be updating the same often. The figure is just for understanding purpose. Concentrate on the Index name, the corresponding report and organisation. Please let us know in comments if we missed any important index. Thanks in advance. All the best!

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