According to the World Happiness Report, happiness levels have fallen in North America and Western Europe, but they have risen significantly in Western and Central Europe. Afghanistan remains the world's least happiest country with a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban took power.
According to the report, deaths from terrorism increased by 22 per cent to 8,352 deaths and are now at their highest level since 2017. However, the number of terrorist attacks has fallen by 22 per cent to 3,350 last year, reflecting an intensification of terrorism.
India remained among the highest performers by maintaining a high ranking in Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and Energy Use categories. However, the CCPI 2024 report also noted that India's slightly positive trend in renewable energy share was advancing too slowly.
At the 80th position in the Henley Passport Index 2023 Q3, India provides visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel to 57 countries worldwide.
Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland have been named the top three among 64 economies measured for their global competitiveness in the 2023 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, published by the World Competitiveness Center for the 35th consecutive year.
The World Happiness Report released its first report in 2012 and from 2013 onwards (where it ranked 111 out of 130 countries), India has been falling in ranks with each passing year.
The Centre on Friday said it was shocking that India's rank was lowered on the Global Hunger Index and it termed the methodology used for rankings "unscientific".
Eighteen countries, including China, Brazil and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of the Global Hunger Index that tracks hunger and malnutrition said on Thursday.
The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
India has slipped four places to rank 112th globally in terms of gender gap amid widening disparity in terms of women's health and survival and economic participation -- the two areas where the country is now ranked in the bottom-five, an annual survey showed on Tuesday.
In the overall ranking, India is followed by some of its neighbours including Sri Lanka at 84th place, Bangladesh at 105th, Nepal at 108th and Pakistan at 110th place.
Indians consider good financial conditions and physical well-being among the top-most reasons to remain joyous, the survey revealed.
India was ranked 60th among 79 developing economies last year, as against China's 15th and Pakistan's 52nd position.
Global prosperity 2.6% higher than in 2007. No region grew as fast as Asia-Pacific.
Jaitley also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of taking India to top 50 in the ‘ease of doing business’ index was a doable task.
Riding on government’s major economic reforms like demonetisation and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, India jumped to rank 100th in the 2018 edition of the World Bank's 'Ease of Doing Business' index.
India made a double-digit jump in the World Bank's 2018 edition of Ease of Doing Business report, reacing the 100th spot from the previous 130th in 2016.
New Delhi, Jun 17: Indians' money in Swiss banks may have risen for the first time in five years, but they account for a meagre 0.14 per cent of total foreign wealth deposited there —
Ahmedabad, Jun 12: Taking on the UPA government over Standard and Poor's threat to downgrade India's ranking, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the government is pushing the country to the brink.“Congress-led UPA's toxic
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