Q.What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?

HDI is a UNDP composite index measuring development beyond income alone. …

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite indicator introduced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to measure development more comprehensively than income-based indicators such as per capita income.

It combines three dimensions: (i) a long and healthy life, measured through life expectancy at birth; (ii) knowledge, measured through mean and expected years of schooling; and (iii) a decent standard of living, measured through Gross National Income (GNI) per capita. A dimension index is computed for each of the three, and the HDI is the geometric mean of the three dimension indices, …

Describing HDI as measuring only income, or forgetting that it is a geometric (not simple arithm …