LONDON: India is ranked 122nd on the new global youth development index that measures the condition of young people in 181 countries, released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London on Tuesday.
Triennial rating of youth development found India among the top five risers in the index between 2010 and 2018, along with Afghan and Russia, advancing their scores of 15.74 percent in all regions such as education and work.
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Singapore is ranked top followed by Slovenia, Norway, Malta and Denmark.
Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Niger each came to survive.
“Young people are very necessary to provide a fairer, inclusive, sustainable and resilient future.
By measuring their contributions and needs with hard data, our advocacy for their development becomes stronger, and we can gradually increase the positive impact .
And young benefits are able to add to building a better future for all of us, “said Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland.
“Our youth development index is a vital tool that has significantly increased our capacity to assess the extent to which young people are involved to contribute to their society, and empower by enabling policies and tools,” he said.
The index ranks the state between 0.00 (lowest) and 1.00 (highest) in accordance with the development of adolescent education, employment, health, equality and inclusion, peace and security and political and civil participation.
It was seen in 27 indicators including literacy and voting to show off the state of 1.8 billion people around the world between the ages of 15 and 29 years.
“While the data used to compile the index is collected before the Covid-19 pandemic, the findings show where progress is being achieved and where not, and urgent actions are needed so that the pre-pandemic increase is not lost but maintained.
And further developing, wider and further.
More inclusion, “Baroness Scotland added.
The Global Global Development Index 2020 revealed that the condition of young people has increased worldwide by 3.1 percent between 2010 and 2018.
Overall, the index shows progress in the participation of youth in the process of peace and education, employment, inclusion and their health care since 2010 .
Health made the biggest increase of 4.39 percent driven by a 1.6 percent decline in the death rate of global youth and a 2 percent decline in HIV, self-damage, alcohol abuse, and tobacco use.
Sub-Saharan Africa makes the biggest step in improving the health of young people.
Unemployed youth levels and those who are not at school, training or work remain constant.
Progress in equality and inclusion is led by increasing gender parity in literacy and fewer cases of child marriage and pregnancy in girls below 20.
However, the index did not find progress that occurred in women’s safety.
Global education scores increased 3 percent, with South Asia making the biggest increase of 16 percent.
Peace and security increased by 3.41 percent, resulting from fewer young people dying from direct violence.
Somalia recorded the biggest benefits in the peace and security of young people, followed by Colombia, Sri Lanka, Eritrea and Russia.
The index, which draws on several data sources, will be released at the Government Commonwealth Meeting which is now postponed (Chogm) in 2020.
However, with Chogm was postponed again until 2022, it was decided to release this year’s index.