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This article is a compilation of Important Ranks & Indexes 2023, which is often asked in the competitive examination. Part 2 of Ranks and Indexes contains India's ranking across the world in different categories.
Released by: TIME Magazine
India’s Mayurbhanj and Ladakh have been chosen for their endangered tigers and historic temples, as well as their adventures and cuisine, respectively.
Edition: 13
Released by: Quacquarelli Symonds
Indian Institution Ranking:
Delhi University (27)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (25)
IIT Kharagpur (23)
IIT Kanpur ranks among the world’s top 100 in engineering-electrical electronics (87th, up by 21 places)
IIT Kanpur computer science information systems (96th, up by 13 places)
IIT Kharagpur occupies the 94th spot, up by 15 places, for computer science and information systems
IIT Madras has moved up by 50 places to come at 98th spot for mathematics.
Arts and Humanities
Harvard University
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Engineering and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stanford University
University of Cambridge
Life Sciences and Medicine
Harvard University
University of Oxford
Johns Hopkins University
Natural Sciences
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
University of Cambridge
Social Sciences and Management
Harvard University
University of Oxford
Stanford University
Released by: Airports Council International (ACI) World
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has been ranked as the ninth busiest airport in the world in 2022.
IGI Airport had secured the 13th position in 2021 and the 17th position in 2019.
Top 10 busiest airports:
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Dallas Fort Worth Airport
Denver Airport
Chicago O’Hare Airport
Dubai Airport
Los Angles, US
Istanbul Airport
London Heathrow Airport
Delhi Airport, and
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Released by: United Nations Development Programme
Topped by:
Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Hong Kong (China), Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, and Netherlands
Human Development Index- Indian Scenario
India ranked 132nd among 191 countries and territories on the 2021 Human Development Index (HDI).
In the 2020 report, India had ranked 131st among 189 countries and territories.
Human Development Index- Asian Countries
Sri Lanka (73rd), China (79th), Bangladesh (129th), and Bhutan (127th) are ranked above India.
While Pakistan (161st), Nepal (143rd), and Myanmar (149th) are worse off.
Stanford University’s AI Index report states that India is ranked fifth in terms of investments received by startups offering AI-based products and services in 2022.
India is still behind the US, China, the UK, and Israel in terms of AI investments received.
AI startups in India received a total investment of $3.24 billion, surpassing countries such as South Korea, Germany, Canada, and Australia.
Released by: Department of Science and Technology
Karnataka, followed by Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Haryana as high innovation states.
Uttarakhand has the highest score among the hill states, while Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has the highest score among the UTs.
Apart from Northeastern states, low-performing states include Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand reported the least share of innovative firms at 12.78 per cent, 13.47 per cent and 13.71 per cent, respectively.
Released by: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Five sub-indicators include the Political indicator, Economic indicator, Legislative indicator, Social indicator, and Security indicator.
Top 10 Countries in the List:
Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Portugal, and East Timor
Bottom 10 Countries in the List:
North Korea (180), China (179), Vietnam (178), Iran (177), Turkmenistan (176), Syria (175), Eritrea (174), Myanmar (173), Cuba (172), and Bahrain (171)
World Press Freedom Index 2023: India
India has slipped to the 161st position out of 180 countries in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index.
India is ranked worse than all other countries except for China, Mexico, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and Myanmar, with Myanmar having the lowest ranking.
Pakistan ranks ahead of India at 150.
Released by: World Bank
India’s rank in the 7th edition of the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index 2023 has improved by 6 positions.
It now stands at 38th among 139 countries.
Logistics Data Bank project by NICDC, which involves the use of RFID tags on containers and has been implemented in the Western region of India since 2016
Ministry of Jal Shakti has released the first-ever Census of Water Bodies.
West Bengal has the highest number of water bodies in India, while Sikkim has the lowest.
Out of 24.24 lakh water bodies in the country, 97.1 percent or 23.55 lakh are in rural areas, and only 2.9 percent or 69,485 are in urban areas.
Ponds account for 59.5 percent of the water bodies, followed by tanks (15.7 percent), reservoirs (12.1 percent), water conservation schemes/percolation tanks/check dams (9.3 percent), lakes (0.9 percent), and others (2.5 percent).
Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of tanks, while Tamil Nadu has the highest number of lakes, as per the census.
Maharashtra is the leading state in implementing water conservation schemes, according to the census.
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Kerala topped the list among larger states, followed by Punjab and Tamil Nadu.
Goa came out on top among smaller states, while Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, and Chandigarh ranked first, second, and third, respectively, among the union territories.
