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UN human development index 2013 - get the data
US falls 13 places in development rankings once inequality in society
is taken into account - while sub-Saharan Africa ranks second only to
south Asia for average growth
The Guardian (UK)
Thursday 14 March 2013
Posted by Nick Mead
The US falls 13 places in the UN's human development index (HDI) once inequality is taken into account =80` while Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Burma and seven sub-Saharan African countries make up the 10 states with the fastest average growth in human development over the past 12 years.
The latest figures and rankings
- released in the UN's 2013 human development report from the UN Development Programme - include life expectancy, education and income. Norway once again comes out top, with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger propping up the bottom.
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But the report also includes a table on trends in the HDI over the past three decades - which makes more favourable reading for poorer African nations.
After languishing at the back of the pack throughout the 1980s and 90s, sub-Saharan Africa was second only to south Asia in terms of annual average HDI growth in the 2000s (1.47% v 1.6%) - and outstripped the Arab states (1.07%), east Asia (1.43%), Europe and central Asia (0.77%), and Latin America (0.74%).
And although Niger has the lowest human development score in the world, it had the 10th fastest average human development growth between 2000 and 2012 (2.2%), behind Afghanistan (3.91%), Sierra Leone (3.29%), Ethiopia (3.09%), Rwanda (2.73%), Timor-Leste (2.71%), Angola (2.56%), Mozambique (2.37%), Burundi (2.31%) and
Burma (2.23%).
The report does not include HDI scores for eight
countries - North Korea, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, Somalia, South Sudan and Tuvalu.
The inequality HDI (IHDI) measures the level of human development of people in society, taking into account inequality.
South Korea falls furthest in the rankings
once inequality is taken into account, with the US falling 13 places, and Latin America making up most of the rest of the worst performers.
The countries that climb the most places once inequality is taken into account are mostly former communist states.
Country IHDI rank change / HDI 2012 / HDI 2012 rank / IHDI 2012
Armenia 13 0.73 87 0.65
The gender inequality index (GII), meanwhile, seeks to expose differences in the distribution of achievements between women and men - taking into account gender disparities in health, empowerment and the labour market.
The Netherlands ranks top, followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Yemen scores lowest on the
GII, followed by Afghanistan, Niger, Saudi Arabia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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UN human development index 2013 - get the data
US falls 13 places in development rankings once inequality in society
is taken into account - while sub-Saharan Africa ranks second only to
south Asia for average growth
The Guardian (UK)
Thursday 14 March 2013
Posted by Nick Mead
The US falls 13 places in the UN's human development index (HDI) once inequality is taken into account =80` while Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Burma and seven sub-Saharan African countries make up the 10 states with the fastest average growth in human development over the past 12 years.
The latest figures and rankings
- released in the UN's 2013 human development report from the UN Development Programme - include life expectancy, education and income. Norway once again comes out top, with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger propping up the bottom.
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But the report also includes a table on trends in the HDI over the past three decades - which makes more favourable reading for poorer African nations.
After languishing at the back of the pack throughout the 1980s and 90s, sub-Saharan Africa was second only to south Asia in terms of annual average HDI growth in the 2000s (1.47% v 1.6%) - and outstripped the Arab states (1.07%), east Asia (1.43%), Europe and central Asia (0.77%), and Latin America (0.74%).
And although Niger has the lowest human development score in the world, it had the 10th fastest average human development growth between 2000 and 2012 (2.2%), behind Afghanistan (3.91%), Sierra Leone (3.29%), Ethiopia (3.09%), Rwanda (2.73%), Timor-Leste (2.71%), Angola (2.56%), Mozambique (2.37%), Burundi (2.31%) and
Burma (2.23%).
The report does not include HDI scores for eight
countries - North Korea, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, Somalia, South Sudan and Tuvalu.
The inequality HDI (IHDI) measures the level of human development of people in society, taking into account inequality.
South Korea falls furthest in the rankings
once inequality is taken into account, with the US falling 13 places, and Latin America making up most of the rest of the worst performers.
The countries that climb the most places once inequality is taken into account are mostly former communist states.
Country IHDI rank change / HDI 2012 / HDI 2012 rank / IHDI 2012
Armenia 13 0.73 87 0.65
The gender inequality index (GII), meanwhile, seeks to expose differences in the distribution of achievements between women and men - taking into account gender disparities in health, empowerment and the labour market.
The Netherlands ranks top, followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Yemen scores lowest on the
GII, followed by Afghanistan, Niger, Saudi Arabia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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