Global/National Indexes and rankings 2025

Global/National Indexes and Rankings 2025 

=>Hurun Rich list 2025: Hurun Global Rich List is out, and India ranks third with 284 billionaires followed by the U.K., Germany, and Switzerland. Elon Musk has reclaimed his title as the world’s richest person for the fourth time in five years as his net worth surged by 82%, or $189 billion driven by a surge in Tesla share price post Trump election. He is followed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with a net worth that surged by 44% or $81 billion.

India now ranks third in the world for number of billionaires, with 284 on the Hurun Global Rich List 2025. Mukesh Ambani remains the richest person in Asia, with a fortune of Rs 8.6 trillion, despite a Rs 1 trillion drop from last year. He edged ahead of Gautam Adani, whose wealth rose by 13% to Rs 8.4 trillion.

 

India adds 13 new billionaires

 

India added 13 new billionaires this year, bringing the total to 284. The combined wealth of Indian billionaires stands at Rs 98 trillion—about one-third of India’s GDP and more than Saudi Arabia’s entire GDP. Of these 284 individuals, 175 saw their wealth rise, while 109 saw it decline or remain flat.

=>Happiest countries in the world 2025: Since 2002, the World Happiness Report has used statistical analysis to determine the world’s happiest countries. In its 2024 update, the report concluded that Finland is the happiest country in the world. To determine the world’s happiest country, researchers analyzed comprehensive Gallup polling data from 143 countries for the past three years, specifically monitoring performance in six particular categories: gross domestic product per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make your own life choices, generosity of the general population, and perceptions of internal and external corruption levels. This time

5 Happiest Countries in the World

Finland

7.74

Denmark

7.58

Iceland

7.53

Sweden

7.34

Israel

7.34

India is currently ranked 118th in the global happiness rankings, with an average life evaluation score of 4.389 out of 10.

=>Global free speech index 2025: India ranked 24th out of 33 countries in free speech index. A new global survey by The Future of Free Speech, an independent U.S.-based think tank, has ranked India 24th out of the 33 countries surveyed on the question of support for free speech.

=>Global Terrorism Index 2025: The Global Terrorism Index (GTI), an annual report published by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), provides a comprehensive analysis of global terrorism trends by ranking countries based on the impact of terrorism, considering factors like incidents, fatalities, injuries, and hostages.  The GTI scores each country on a scale from 0 to 10; where 0 represents no impact from terrorism and 10 represents the highest measurable impact of terrorism.

=>IQ Air report 2025: All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows.

The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India, where booming economic growth is fired largely by coal and where hundreds of millions live in traffic-clogged and congested megacities.

Another four are in neighboring Pakistan, with one in China and Kazakhstan respectively.

The only city outside of Asia featured on the list is N’Djamena, the capital of Chad in central Africa – which was named the country with the worst air pollution.

=>Countries with highest Solar Energy generation: Here, India is at 2nd rung, while USA tops the list.

=>World ghappiness index 2024: Finland tops the list in 7th years in a row, while India is 126th rung out of 143 surveyed countries.

=>Panchayat Raj Devolution Index 2025:  Karnataka tops the overall Devolution Index (DI) ranking of the Panchayat Raj system among States in India, while Kerala and Tamil Nadu are in the second and third spot, respectively.

The report titled ‘Status of Devolution to Panchayats in States – An Indicative Evidence-Based Ranking’ (2024) released by the Centre on February 13 states that Karnataka tops the chart in the DI and in the key sub-indices of ‘finances’ and ‘accountability’. Overall, the State has commendable performance across nearly all identified metrics.

=>Global Climate Risk Index 2025: India has been ranked sixth in the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2025, highlighting its high vulnerability to extreme weather event

The Climate Risk Index (CRI) ranks countries by the human and economic toll of extreme weather. The latest edition highlights increasing losses and the urgent need for stronger climate resilience and action.

=>Global Corruption Perception Index 2024:  The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed by experts and business executives. The CPI generally defines corruption as an "abuse of entrusted power for private gain"  

India ranks 96 out of 180 countries in Corruption Perceptions Index 2024

The index, which ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption uses a scale of zero to 100, where "zero" is highly corrupt and "100" is very clean.

=>Global Firepower Index 2025: 

• US, Russia, China top the global firepower index in 2025
• India secures 4th spot, Pakistan slips to 12th, was 9th last year.

 The ranking highlights India's expanding defence capabilities across the Army, Navy, and Air Force, reinforcing its position as one of the world's most powerful military forces.