India maintained its 127th in the human development index rankings released by the UNDP-in the Human development Report, 2004. As per the HDR, India’s life expectancy at birth in the year 2002, the latest available, was 63.7 years, abult literary rate (per centeses, 15 and above) was 61.3, combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools was 55 per cent and GDP per capita (purchasing power parity basis) was 2670 dollers.
According to the report, the per capita expenditure on health in India is $ 80 compared to $ 224 in China in 2001. In the area of technology diffusion and creation, while India has 40 telephone mainlines per 1,000 people, China has 167. The report says that the number of researchers in India per million is 157, while china has 584.
India has improved on the poverty front and has moved up five not ches to 48 this year in a list of 95 developing countries. The report placed India among good performing countries that were able to reduce poverty in the process of development.