Important Indices and Reports for UPSC exam

  • Asian Development bank
    • Asian Development Outlook
  • Bank for International Settlements
    • Global Financial System Report
  • Convention on biological diversity –
    • Global Biodiversity outlook
  • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Goverment of India
    • National Air Quality Index
    • National Ambient Air Quality Standard
  • Cornell University INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization
    • Global Innovation Index
  • The Council of Social Development
    • India Social Development Report
  • Eurasia Group ( risk assessment company in USA)
    • Top Risks report
  • Financial action Task force
    • Global Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Threat Assessment (GTA)
  • Forest Survey of India
    • India State of Forest Report
  • Germanwatch, New climate institute, Climate action network
    • Climate Change Performance Index
  • Germanwatch
    • Global climate risk index
  • Heritage Foundation (US think tank)
    • Index of Economic Freedom
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    • World economic outlook
    • Global Financial Stability Report
  • INSEAD (Business group)
    • Global Talent Competitiveness Index ( partnership with Adecco group, Google)
  • International Energy Agency
    • World Energy Outlook
    • Energy efficiency report
    • world energy investment report
  • International Telecommunication Union
    • Global Cyber security index
  • International Labour organisation. HQ : Geneva, Switzerland
    • Global Wage Report
    • World Social Protection Report
    • World Employment and Social Outlook
  • International Organisation for Migration’s
    • Global Migration Report
  • Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
    • LONGITUDINAL AGEING STUDY OF INDIA (LASI) WAVE-1, INDIA REPORT
  • Ministry of Housing and Urban welfare / affairs, Government of India
    • Ease of living index
    • Municipal performance Index
  • National Housing Bank (under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Finance , Government of India)
    • RESIDEX – Residential Index
  • National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, public policy think tank of the Government of India
    • School Education Quality Index (SEQI) (in association with Ministry of Human Resources Development)
    • India Innovation Index [with Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) ]
    • Farmer Friendly Reform Index
    • Composite Water Management Index
  • Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD)
    • The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
  • Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
    • Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region
  • Oxfam International
    • Time to care report – Alleviation of Global poverty
    • Global Inequality Crisis Report
  • PRATHAM – NGO
    • Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) India
  • Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung.
    • Sustainable Development Report (presents the SDG Index and Dashboards for all UN member states)
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit
    • The Global Food Security Index
    • Democracy Index
  • Transparency International
    • Corruption perception index
    • Global Corruption Report
  • United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
    • The State of the World’s Children Reports
  • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). HQ – Geneva
    • Global Investment Trend Monitor Report
    • The Trade & Development Report
    • World investment Report
    • Digital economy report
    • Technology and Innovation report
    • The Least Developed Countries Report
    • E-commerce and Development Report
    • Review of Maritime Report
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    • Human Development Index / Report
      • Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI),
      • Gender Development Index (GDI),
      • Gender Inequality Index (GII) and
      • Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
    • Gender Social Norms Index
    • Gender Inequality Index
  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
    • World Economic Situation Prospects ( in partnership with United Nations conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
    • Global Education Monitoring Report
    • Gender Parity Index
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) : HQ@Nairobi, Kenya
    • Emission Gap report
    • Global Environment Outlook
    • Food Waste Index Report
    • Adaptation Gap Report 
    • Triple Emergency
    • Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
    • World Wildlife Crime Report
    • Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
  • Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) . HQ: Rome, Italy
    • State of food and agriculture
    • State of the World’s Forests Report (with UNEP)
    • World food Prices index
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
    • The State of the World Population report
  • UN Sustainable development solutions network
    • World happiness report.
    • Annual SDG Index & dashboard Global Report
  • United States Chambers of Commerce
    • International Intellectual Property Index
  • Wealthunger life and concern worldwide
    • Global Hunger index
  • World Bank
    • World development report
    • Ease of Doing Business
    • Global Economic prospects
    • Remittance and migration
    • Human capital index
    • Women, Business and the law index
    • The Service Trade Restriction Index
  • World Economic Forum
    • Enabling Trade Report
    • Global Competitiveness Report
    • Global Environment Performance Index ( in collaboration with Yale University and Columbia University)
    • Global Information Technology Report
    • Global gender gap report
    • Global Human capital index
    • Global Social Mobility Report
    • Inclusive Development Index
    • Travel and tourism competitiveness Report
    • Energy Transition Index Report
  • World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
    • Global Innovation Index
  • World Trade Organisation (WTO)
    • World Trade Outlook Indicator
  • World Wildlife Fund/ World wide fund for Nature
    • living planet report / index
    • The Energy Report

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