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Fragile States Index for India - overall score, ranking and values for cohesion, economic, political, and social indicators, and comparison with global peers.

According to the Global Hunger Index, India had an index value of **** in 2023. The composition of the index was a combination of different indicators such as undernourishment, child underweight, and child mortality. India's score indicates a serious level of hunger crisis, placing the country at a position of ***** out of 121 countries that year. However, the country had improved the situation from ** index points falling in the category of alarming level in 2000.

India's performance data on Index of Economic Freedom - score and ranking across all indicators, in addition to comparison with global peers.

EIU's Democracy Index for India - overall score, ranking and values for performance indicators, and comparison with global peers.

In 2022, India climbed to the **** position in the Global Innovation Index (GII), showing an improvement from its previous rank of **. The GII is an annual report that evaluates and assesses the innovation performance of countries worldwide, providing a comprehensive understanding of their innovation capabilities.

WJP's Rule of Law Index for India - overall score, ranking and values for performance indicators, including expert analysis and comparison with global peers.

India is the 96 least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, according to the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - India Corruption Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

India's Logistics Performance Index data - scores and rank on overall performance and sub-indexes, including expert analysis, and comparison with global peers.

India's ranking on the Passport index jumped to ** in 2024 from ** in 2023. In 2006, the country stood in the **** position worldwide. In 2021, the country had the lowest ranking since 2006.

India's Global Innovation Index data - score and ranking across all sub-indexes, in addition to comparison with global peers.

About Dataset

Context

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a system to evaluate and rank higher education institutions in India. It was launched by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2015. The NIRF uses various parameters to measure the performance of institutions, such as teaching, research, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity, and perception. The NIRF publishes annual rankings for various categories of institutions, such as universities, colleges, engineering, medical, law, etc. The latest NIRF rankings were released on June 5, 2023.

Content

This dataset includes a separate csv file for each category of rankings as released by the Govt. A separate csv details the qualitative information about the institutes, whereas the categorical rankings include quantitative data.

Data Columns:

• Institute ID (index): Govt. has used uniform IDs from the year 2019, hence the data prior to that has not been considered.
• Score_'year': Average total score assigned to the institute, calculated based on the allotted weights.
• Rank_'year': Rank of the institute in that respective year.
• TLR (100)_'year': Teaching, Learning & Resources score (part of total score)
• RPC (100)_'year': Research and Professional Practice score (part of total score)
• GO (100)_'year': Graduation Outcome score (part of total score)
• OI (100)_'year': Outreach and Inclusivity score (part of total score)
• PERCEPTION (100)_'year': Peer Perception- Academic Peers and Employers score (part of total score)
• Name of the Institute
• City where the Institute is located
• State in which the Institute is located

More details regarding the scores can be found here.

Acknowledgements

The data was scrapped from NIRF India website.

Inspiration

With new admissions just around the corner, this data may help students in analysing and selecting the appropriate institute for further education.

India is ranked 63 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business, according to the latest World Bank annual ratings. The rank of India improved to 63 in 2019 from 77 in 2018. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Ease of Doing Business in India.

Following a declining trend that emerged in 2017, India's press freedom rank dropped further to *** out of 180 countries surveyed in the World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders in 2024. With a score of ***** the South Asian democracy was among regions where the freedom of the press was seriously threatened. The Press Freedom Index score in 2024 was evaluated based on the political, economic, and sociocultural contexts as well as the legal framework and level of safety in a country. Perils of pursuing journalism in India  Despite constitutional guarantees such as the freedom of speech and expression, journalists and media organizations in India continue to face challenges in reporting issues crucial to upholding democratic values. In the last two decades, over ** journalists were killed in the country while several others were imprisoned under anti-state charges.  Press freedom in the APAC region The press freedom index varies widely in the Asia-Pacific region, with New Zealand being one of the highest-ranking countries globally. In contrast, the regimes in China and North Korea continue to exercise strict control over the media. Press freedom remains under threat due to censorship, violence against journalists, and government pressure on media outlets not just in the Asia-Pacific region, but around the world.

According to the 2024 Digital Quality of Life index covering 121 countries, India's rank dropped to **, scoring an average of **** points across five digital aspects. While the country moved up the ranks on the internet affordability and electronic security pillars that year, it saw a decline across the other three aspects that had been its strength in 2023.

India's performance on UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI) - score, rank, and comparison with global peers.

In 2023, India's index for fundamental rights, one of the factors in the rule of law index was ****. According to the source, it includes the rights that are established by the UN Declaration of Human Rights closely related to the rule of law.

That year, India's ranking in the Rule of Law index stood at ** out of 140 countries, a significant increase compared to 2015.

RSF's Press Freedom Index for India - overall score and ranking, and comparison with global peers.

Corruption Perception Index for India - overall score, world ranking, in addition to expert analysis and comparison with global peers.