India continues to fare poorly in the human development parameters with this year's Human Development Report (HDR) of the UNDP giving the country a rank of 127 among 177 countries despite recording a high economic growth in recent years. "More rapid growth may have put the country on track for the millennium target of halving poverty, but India is widely off track for the child mortality target. The annual rate of decline in child mortality fell from 2.9 per cent in 1980s to 2.3 per cent since 1990