UNDP report puts Azerbaijan in high human development group

In the 2013 index, Turkey was ranked 69th with an HDI value of 0.759.

“Between 1990 and 2014, Cambodia’s HDI value increased by 52.4 percent, or an average annual increase of about 1.77 percent”, the UNDP’s Cambodia office said in a statement on Monday.

But life expectancy in the United Kingdom is 80.7 years, only just behind the top country Norway’s life expectancy of 81.6. Among the neighbouring countries of India, Pakistan was ranked at 147, China was ranked at 90, Bhutan was ranked at 132, Bangladesh was ranked at 142, Nepal was ranked at 145, and Sri Lanka was ranked highest among the neighbouring countries of India at 73. If India’s women were their own country, they would be 30 ranks lower on the HDI than the country as a whole is now, with far worse educational outcomes dragging them down.

It uses three categories of human development – categorised as a long and healthy lifestyle, access to knowledge and decent standard of living – to assess the long-term progress of nations. Hyman explained that a downward movement in the GNI per capita will result in a decline in the HDI given that the other indicators, life expectancy and education levels, have largely remained constant and experience only marginal increase annually. The mean years of schooling has increased by only by 3.5 years since 1980. The difference between India’s gross national per capita income rank and HDI rank is four.

According to the report, India’s 2014 HDI of 0.609 is below the average of 0.630 for countries in the medium human development group and above the average of 0.607 for countries in South Asia. It was followed by the UAE in 41st (40th in 2014), Bahrain in 45th (33rd last year) and Kuwait in 48th place (down from 36th).

The HDI also doesn’t take into account of things like human rights, pollution or the hours of work.

The report also shows Ghana has a lower Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index of 3.87, indicating a percentage loss of 33.1 per cent if the index is adjusted to factor inequality.

“The developing countries of Europe and Central Asia have maintained comparatively low levels of inequalities, including when it comes to gender”. In comparison, GDI values for Bangladesh and Pakistan are 0.917 and 0.726, respectively.

The GII reflects gender-based inequalities in three dimensions – reproductive health, empowerment and economic activity.

For every 1,00,000 live births, 190 women die from pregnancy related causes.

The region’s overall official employment rate is 66 percent but 74 percent of working women and 61 percent of working men in sub-Saharan Africa are informal employment and almost 25 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 14 work as child labor, according to the report.