Unnati Index

Indices

Composite indices built only from the official data on this site, each modelled on a well-known international index. They use the same fixed goalposts as the Unnati Index, so scores rise only when a state's own numbers improve.

Also on this site

Consumption inequality (Gini) and multidimensional poverty (MPI) are published officially for every state, so we show them directly rather than rebuilding them.

Indices we don't build

Happiness, democracy, press freedom, freedom and corruption-perception indices rest on surveys of how people feel or on expert ratings of rights, elections and the media. No official state-level data measures these, and stand-ins (such as corruption cases registered, which reflect enforcement rather than corruption) would mislead, so we leave them out.