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stands among the bottom 25 per cent of countries in the world (Figure 2). The extent of inequality in human development in India is such that while the adjustment for inequality made little difference to the distributional profile of normalised indices for education across countries, the same brought about a radical downward shift of the box plot for the Indian states. Accordingly, the loss due to inequality in education is 43 per cent for India but much less (28 per cent) in the world as a whole; the loss due to inequality in health is 34 per cent, compared to the world average of 21 per cent (UNDP, 2010: 155).
FIGURE 2

Distribution of HDI and its Dimensions: Countries (International Goalposts)

Source: Based on estimates from UNDP (2010). Note: The dashed lines and the values indicated for each plot correspond to the value of index for India.

4.2 HDIS BASED ON DOMESTIC GOALPOSTS

The normalised indices for different dimensions of human development with respect to the domestic goalposts, as one would expect, throw up a profile very similar to the one based on the global goalposts (Figure 3).10 Since the change in goalposts does not affect the inequalityadjustment factor, the profiles of loss would remain unchanged.