PANAJI
The coastal State of Goa has been recognised as the top-performing State among the North-East, Hilly Regions and small States of India, according to the CareEdge State ranking report 2025. Maharashtra has emerged at the top among the large states in India.
Goa has secured the highest place for consistently performing well across financial, infrastructure, economic, and social dimensions. However, the State ranking dropped to 7th position as far as governance and environment indicators were concern.
This annual assessment uses 50 quantitative indicators that fall under seven different categories: economic, fiscal, infrastructure, financial development, social, governance, and environment.
Goa achieved the highest composite score of 62.1, backed by robust performance in social development (88.4), infrastructure (73.2), financial development (51.5), economic pillar (62.5) and fiscal stand (57.8).
On the economic pillar, that captures aspects relating to the State’s structural economic features, growth and investment performance, Goa ranked second with 62.5 points after Sikkim.
The fiscal pillar that assesses the State’s fiscal health in terms of debt and deficit sustainability, revenue generation capacity, quality of expenditure and debt management, Goa managed to score 57.8.
On the financial development, Goa emerged as top performer with 51.5 while assessing the overall availability of credit and penetration of financial services in the State.
As far as social and physical infrastructure was concerned, Goa once again topped with 73.2 so also on the social indicator related to health, education, labour and poverty, where the State scored 88.4.
The State’s performance was below par when it came to governance (47.3) and environment (52.0). For governance, the assessment includes public services, judiciary, business environment and security.
On the other hand, the environment pillar is assessed based on the environment aspect that has a direct bearing on social well-being.
The assessment of the pillar is undertaken during a period from 2023 to 2024.
