{"id":13952,"date":"2016-07-26T08:33:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13952"},"modified":"2016-07-26T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T12:52:09","slug":"sustainable-development-goal-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/sustainable-development-goal-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Development Goal Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: In the new Sustainable Development Goal Index released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, India is ranked-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 106th<br \/>\n(b) 108th<br \/>\n(c) 99th<br \/>\n(d) 110th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 20 July 2016 the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched a new Sustainable Development Goal Index.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SDG Index and Dashboard collect available data for 149 countries to assess where each country stands in 2016 with regard to achieving the SDGs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SDG Index ranks countries based on their performance across 17 goals.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The index has been topped by Sweden with the score of 84.5.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next four countries in the list are 2. Denmark (Score -83.9), 3. Norway (Score -82.3), 4. Finland (score-81.0) and 5. Switzerland (Score -80.9).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Central African Republic is at the bottom of the list (149th rank) with the score of 26.1.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Above this Liberia with the score of 30.5 ranked 148th.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congo (Score -31.3) is ranked 147 th, Niger (Score -31.4) 146 th and Chad (Score -31.8) at 145.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">India is ranked 110th in the index with the score of 48.4.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the neighboring countries Bhutan 82nd place (score -58.2), Sri Lanka 97 th (score 54.8), Nepal 103rd place (score 51.5), Pakistan ranked 115 (score -45.7), Bangladesh ranked 118 (score -44.4) and Afghanistan ranked 139 (score -36.5) has been received.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the BRICS countries Russia ranked 47th (score -66.4), Brazil 52th (score-64.4), China 76th (score -59.1).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the developed countries, United States, ranked 25th (score -72.7), UK 10th (score -78.1), Japan 18th (score -75.0), Singapore 19th (score -74.6), Australia 20th (score -74.4), Germany 6th (score -8.5), and Canada 13th (score -76.8).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/new-index-shows-countries-need-to-act-urgently-to-achieve-sustainable-development-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/new-index-shows-countries-need-to-act-urgently-to-achieve-sustainable-development-goals\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/7679980_India-ranks-110th-on-Sustainable-Development-index-\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/7679980_India-ranks-110th-on-Sustainable-Development-index-<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/the-sdgindex-dashboards-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/the-sdgindex-dashboards-launch\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In the new Sustainable Development Goal Index released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, India is ranked- (a) 106th (b) 108th (c) 99th (d) 110th Ans: (d) Related facts: On 20 July 2016 the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched a new Sustainable Development Goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-13952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}