Compares overall progress across the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A lower rank is better.
Sustainable Development Report ↗Development
Progress is more than GDP.
Track hunger, nutrition, poverty, inequality and human development together — and keep the definition behind every number visible.
25.8India hunger score25.5Consumption Gini17.74%Multidimensional poverty
Latest available India series
Checking latest data…Development indicators update on different schedules.
The API asks each live source for its newest non-null India observation rather than requesting a fixed year.
India in the world
Development is bigger than GDP.
These indices answer different questions: sustainable development, human capability, life satisfaction and hunger.
Combines health, education and living standards into one human-development measure.
UNDP ↗Ranks countries using people’s own evaluation of their lives, averaged over recent survey years.
World Happiness Report ↗Combines undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality. Lower is better.
Global Hunger Index ↗NITI Aayog · State / UT view
NITI Aayog SDG Index ↗How is your state doing on the SDGs?
CurioLens checks NITI for the latest SDG India Index edition, then shows the selected State/UT score. If the live table cannot be read, the last verified NITI edition remains clearly labelled.
Bihar—Latest NITI edition · score out of 100
India—National composite score
NITI’s SDG India Index is a State/UT benchmark. It is separate from the global Sustainable Development Report, so CurioLens does not combine the two scores.
The GHI combines undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality.
Latest GHI ↗Wasting means a child has low weight for height — a sign of acute undernutrition.
Check indicator ↗A lower Gini means consumption is more evenly distributed; it does not fully capture wealth concentration.
World Bank ↗A simple health-and-longevity measure used in broader development comparisons.
World Bank ↗Hunger in context
GHI ranking ↗India compared with selected countries and the world
Lower GHI scores are better. Countries below 5 are grouped rather than individually ranked.
One rank cannot describe development.
HDI focuses on health, education and income. SDG indices cover a much wider policy agenda. Happiness is based on life evaluation, while GHI focuses on hunger and child nutrition.
Use national and state views together.
The global SDG rank tells us where India stands internationally. NITI’s SDG India Index helps compare States and UTs inside India using a different indicator framework.
NITI SDG programme ↗