Pakistan is also ranked better than India on adolescent fertility rates (teenage pregnancies), political representation, & there is not much difference in access to education, maternal death rates & labor force participation between the two countries etc. Which is why Pakistan is better than India on the GII. A similar situation is found in the HDI, where Pakistan does better than India on most factors, but still India is ranked slightly higher than Pakistan.
We are not doing bad even after considering political instability, martial laws, lack of democracy, terrorism etc
at least we admit our flaws instead of chanting the slogan of super power to prove themselves superior.
According to sources of Wikipedia
47% of India’s children below the age of three are malnourished almost twice the statistics of sub-Saharan African region of 28%. World Bank estimates this figure to be 60 million children out of a global estimated total of 146 million. Although India’s economy grew 50% from 2001–2006, its child-malnutrition rate only dropped 1%, lagging behind countries of similar growth rate. Malnutrition impedes the social and cognitive development of a child, reducing his educational attainment and income as an adult. These irreversible damages result in lower productivity
Approximately 1.72 million children die each year before turning one.
India is ranked 3rd among the countries with the most number of HIV-infected.
As more than 122 million households have no toilets and 33% lack access to latrines, over 50% of the population (638 million) defecates in the open.This is relatively higher than Bangladesh and Brazil (7%) and China (4%). Although 211 million people gained access to improved sanitation from 1990–2008, only 31% uses them.11% of the Indian rural families dispose of child stools safely whereas 80% of the population leave their stools in the open or throw them into the garbage. Open air defecation leads to the spreading of diseases and malnutrition through parasitic and bacterial infections
Access to protected sources of drinking water has improved from 68% of the population in 1990 to 88% in 2008. However, only 26% of the slum population has access to safe drinking water and 25% of the total population has drinking water on their premises.
I am not posting these things to bash India and i know Pakistan is also not much different but we should admit the reality and problems in order to solve them instead of feeling insecure as it break our dreamland of world super power