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Figure 10: India’s performance in Human Capital & Research Pillar in GII 2020

Innovation Input Sub-Index 2020 Human Capital & Research Pillar 2020
Pillar - Human Capital & Research Sub-Pillar: Education (Primary & Secondary)
0 UK GR 0 CH FR
CH FR US
JP CA GR
IT UK
50 India 60 BR 50 BR IT CA US
Rank Rank JP
100 100 India 107

150 150
3 3.5 4 4.5 5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
Log 10 (GDP per capita, PPP Current International $) Log 10 (GDP per capita, PPP Current International $)

Human Capital & Research Pillar 2020 Human Capital & Research Pillar 2020
Sub-Pillar: Education (Tertiary) Sub-Pillar: Research & Development
GR UK CH FR GR
0 0 JP UK US
FR IT CA
CA US India 35 BR
50 IT 50
Rank India 66 BR CH JP Rank
100 100

150 150
3 3.5 4 4.5 5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
Log 10 (GDP per capita, PPP Current International $) Log 10 (GDP per capita, PPP Current International $)

Source: The World Bank and GII database
Note: Highest possible rank is 1. Figure shows India’s innovation rank. US = USA, CH = China, JP = Japan, GR =
Germany, UK = United Kingdom, FR = France, IT = Italy, BR = Brazil and CA = Canada.

8.17 Figure 11 shows India’s performance in the infrastructure pillar and its three sub-pillars
– ICT; electricity, logistics and gross capital formation (GCF); and ecological sustainability vis-
à-vis its level of development. India performed above expectation for its level of development
in two sub-pillars of the infrastructure pillar in 2020, performing well in the electricity, logistics
and GCF sub-pillar (rank 46). Its performance in the electricity, logistics and GCF sub-pillar was
led by the parameter gross capital formation as per cent of GDP (rank 24). India’s performance
in the ICT sub-pillar was led by government’s online services (rank 9) and e-participation (rank
15) but dragged down by ICT access (rank 108) and ICT use (rank 108). India performed below
expectation for its income level in the ecological sustainability sub-pillar (rank 98), which can
be mainly attributed to the parameter environmental performance (rank 124).