HUMAN RESOURCE

1ST

FINLAND HAS TOPPED THE LIST.

INDIA RANKS 100 IN HUMAN CAPITAL INDEX THAT WAS RELEASED ON THURSDAY.

OTHER BRICS RANKS:

■ RUSSIA 26

■ CHINA 64,

■ BRAZIL 78,

■ SOUTH AFRICA 92

■ India’s neighbours — Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Bangladesh — have also performed well.

■ PAKISTAN IS RANKED at 113.

SOME RANK PARAMETERS:

■ How well countries are developing and deploying their human capital,

■ Focus on education, skills and employment

AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT:

■ THE STUDY said that although in India the educational attainment has improved markedly over different age groups, its youth literacy rate is still only 90 per cent, well behind the rates of other emerging economies.

■ WE MUST also improve our labour force participation rate in its large informal sector.

MAJOR WESTERN NATIONS WHO RANKED ABOVE INDIA

■ FRANCE (14TH ),

■ THE US (17TH),

■ UK (19TJ)

■ GERMANY (22ND)

THE TOP 9

NORWAY, SWITZERLAND, CANADA, JAPAN, SWEDEN, DENMARK, THE NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND AND BELGIUM.