Indias global ranking for important social indicators

We have compared India's performance with some selected countries (within our neighbourhood, and across the globe) for important social indicators.The indicators considered here are, the density of population, the human development index, the literacy rate (men, women and overall), the unemployment rate and the percentage of the total population which is English speaking.

SOCIAL INDICATORS RANKING

  • Literacy Rate
  • Human Development Index
  • Unemployment Rate
  • Population
  • English Speakers
  • Income Equality
  • World Wealth
The Global literacy rates is the percentage of the population above the age of 15 who can read and write.

Countries by literacy rate

Serial no. Country Overall Literacy rate Male Literacy Female Literacy
1 america flag  United states 99% 99% 99%
2 uk flag  United Kingdom 99% 99% 99%
3 germany flag  Germany 99% 99% 99%
4 france flag  France 99% 99% 99%
5 japan flag  Japan 99% 99% 99%
6 china flag  China 96.84% 98.47% 95.16%
7 brazil flag  Brazil 93.23% 93.01% 93.43%
8 india flag  India 77.7% 75.3% 53.7%
9 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 73.91% 76.67% 71.18%
10 pakisthan flag  Pakistan 70% 75.5% 59.8%

Source: 2018 Listed by MacroTrends
The Human development index (HDI) is now commonly used to rank the overall progress of a country or society. HDI is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, the GDP per capita is higher, the fertility rate is lower, and the inflation rate is lower.

Countries by human development index

Serial no. Country Human development Index
1 germany flag  Germany 0.936
2 america flag  United states 0.924
3 uk flag  United Kingdom 0.922
4 japan flag  Japan 0.909
5 france  France 0.901
6 brazil flag  Brazil 0.759
7 china flag  China 0.752
8 india flag  India 0.64
9 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 0.608
10 pakisthan flag  Pakistan 0.562

Source: 2020 Listed by World population Review
The unemployment rate is an indication of unemployment in a country. It is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force.

Countries by unemployment rate

Serial no. Country Unemployment Rate (%)
1 brazil flag  Brazil 11.97%
2 france flag  France 8.34%
3 india flag  India 6.98%
4 pakisthan flag  Pakistan 4.45%
5 uk flag  United Kingdom 4.8%
6 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 4.15%
7 america flag  United states 6.9%
8 china flag  China 3.8%
9 germany flag  Germany 5.9%
10 japan flag  Japan 2.34%

Source: 2020 Listed by Statista
Population Density: Population density is a measurement of population per unit area, usually the number of people per km2.
Urbanization: The rate at which the population shift from rural to urban areas.

Population information of different countries

Serial no. Country Density (pop./km2) Urbanization Rate
1 bangaldesh flag  Bangladesh 1,265 3.17
2 india flag  India 464 2.37
3 japan flag  Japan 347 -0.14
4 uk flag  United Kingdom 281 0.89
5 pakisthan flag  Pakistan 287 2.53
6 germany flag  Germany 240 0.27
7 china flag  China 153 2.42
8 france flag  France 119 0.72
9 america flag  United states 36 0.95
10 brazil flag  Brazil 25 1.05

Source: Wikipedia (2020)
Top ten countries with most English Speaking people in the world.

% of english speaking people

Serial no. Country % English speakers of the total population Total English speakers
1 america flag  United States 95.46% 283,160,411
2 india flag  India 12.18% 125,344,737
3 pakisthan  Pakistan 57% 108,036,049
4 uk flag  United Kingdom 97.74% 59,600,000
5 germany  Germany 56% 45,400,000
6 france  France 36% 23,000,000
7 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 18% 30,108,031
8 brazil flag  Brazil 5% 10,542,000
9 china flag  China <1% 10,000,000
10 japan flag  Japan NA NA

Source: Wikipedia (2018)
R/P 10%: The ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%
R/P 20%: The ratio of the average income of the richest 20% to the poorest 20%
The Gini index is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income and everyone else has zero income).

Income Equality

Serial no. Country R/P 10% R/P 20% Gini
1 brazil flag  Brazil 16.5 21.1 53.9
2 china flag  China 21.6 10.2 38.5
3 america flag  United States 18.5 9.4 41.4
4 uk flag  United Kingdom 13.8 5.4 34.8
5 france flag  France 9.1 5.2 31.6
6 india flag  India 8.6 5.5 37.8
7 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 7.5 4.8 32.4
8 germany flag  Germany 6.9 5.1 31.9
9 pakisthan  Pakistan 6.5 4.8 33.5
10 japan flag  Japan 4.5 5.4 32.9

Source: Wikipedia (World Bank and CIA list)
List of countries showing share of world wealth.

Distribution of Wealth

Serial no. Country Share of world wealth (%)
1 america flag  United States 29.4
2 japan flag  Japan 6.9
3 china flag  China 17.7
4 uk flag  United Kingdom 4.0
5 germany flag  Germany 4.1
6 india flag  India 3.5
7 france flag  France 3.8
8 brazil flag  Brazil 1.0
9 pakisthan flag  Pakistan 0.1
10 bangladesh flag  Bangladesh 0.2

Source: Wikipedia (2019)

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