[neniajany]

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya Sen

Do you think this index is real? or do you think is just another wank-ranking that isn't worthy at all? Which do you think is the best way of seeing the quality-of-life of the countries?

I leave you the top 10 of countries by continent



EUROPE
1º Norway: 0.971
2º Iceland: 0.969
3º Ireland: 0.965
4º Netherlands: 0.964
5º Sweden: 0.963
6º France: 0.961
7º Switzerland: 0.960
8º Finland: 0.959
9º Austria: 0.955
9º Denmark: 0.955


AMERICAS
1º Canada: 0.966
2º United States: 0.956
3º Chile: 0.878
4º Argentina: 0.866
5º Uruguay: 0.865
6º Cuba: 0.863
7º Mexico: 0.854
7º Costa Rica: 0.854
9º Venezuela: 0.844
10º Panama: 0.840

ASIA-PACIFIC
1º Australia: 0.970
2º Japan: 0.960
3º New Zealand: 0.950
4º Singapore: 0.944
5º South Korea: 0.937
6º Israel: 0.935
7º Kuwait: 0.916
8º Qatar: 0.910
9º UAE: 0.903
10º Oman: 0.846

AFRICA
1º Libya: 0.847
2º Tunisia: 0.769
3º Gabon: 0.755
4º Algeria: 0.754
5º Equatorial Guinea: 0.719
6º Egypt: 0.703
7º Botswana: 0.694
8º Namibia: 0.686
9º South Africa: 0.683
10º Morrocco: 0.654

[AOE6q4bu]

Looking at this list, I'm suprised how low the UK ranks at 21st. According to the HDI, the development of the UK is more comparable to Greece, South Korea and Italy than the likes of Sweden, Canada and France. Has the UK really slipped back this much?

[DoctorWeryDolt]

Looking at this list, I'm suprised how low the UK ranks at 21st. According to the HDI, the development of the UK is more comparable to Greece, South Korea and Italy than the likes of Sweden, Canada and France. Has the UK really slipped back this much?

Child poverty and other issues like that really hold us back.

[wasssallx]

Yeah I was also surprised about the positions of UK and Germany!

[Poohoppesmase]

I'm surprised France ranked so high....

[Idorsearogele]

I can't fully say if it's for real, for one thing some of these updates on Wikipedia can be sometimes wrong in putting out their information, so maybe it right or wrong. In other words it could be just used as false information.