{"id":13092,"date":"2016-07-02T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2016-07-02T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:00:59","slug":"human-capital-report-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/human-capital-report-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Capital Report-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: What is the rank of India in recently released Human Capital Report-2016 of World Economic Forum?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 106th<br \/>\n(b) 105th<br \/>\n(c) 110th<br \/>\n(d) 99th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 28 June 2016 Geneva based World Economic Forum has released its annual report named \u201cHuman Capital Report-2016\u201d.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s World Economic Forum\u2019s Human Capital Report ranks 130 countries across the world.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The index takes a life-course approach to human capital, evaluating the levels of education, skills and employment available to people in five distinct age groups, starting from under 15 years to over 65 years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Index assesses Learning and Employment outcomes on a scale from 0 (worst) to 100 (best).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finland has been ranked as first with overall score of 85.86.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next four countries in the Index are 2. Norway (Score -84.64), 3. Switzerland (Score -84.61), 4. Japan (score -83.44), 5. Sweden (Score -83.29).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mauritania with the least score of 42.33 is ranked 130th in the Human Capital Index-2016.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">India with the score of 57.33 is ranked 105th in the Index.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It may be recalled that in the human capital index -2015 India was ranked 100th with a score of 57.62 in the list of 124 countries.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the neighbouring countries Bangladesh ranked 104th (Score -57.84), Nepal ranked 108th (score -57.35), Bhutan 91st place (score -61.83), Sri Lanka 50th place (score -71.69) and Pakistan 118th place (score 53.10) .<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the BRICS countries India is ranked below Russian Federation (28th, score -77.86), Brazil (83th, score -64.51), China (71st, score -67.81).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human Capital Index of developed countries is as follows :United States in 24th place (score 78.86), the UK&#8217;s 19th place (score -80.04), Australia ranks 18th (score -80.08), France 17th (score- 80.32) and Germany placed 11th (score -81.55).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/rankings\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/south-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/human-capital-report-2016\/south-asia\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/HCR2016_Main_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/HCR2016_Main_Report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is the rank of India in recently released Human Capital Report-2016 of World Economic Forum? (a) 106th (b) 105th (c) 110th (d) 99th Ans: (b) Related facts: On 28 June 2016 Geneva based World Economic Forum has released its annual report named \u201cHuman Capital Report-2016\u201d. 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