Angola ranks as 148 out of 187 countries on the Human Development index.
Human Development Index and Electricity ConsumptionRoughly 400 million Indians remain without access to power.
The HDI Tree aggregates data in the Human Development Index graphically instead of numerically.
At least as important as the human development index is the impact of all this on climate change.
The UN's 2006 Human Development Index placed Guatemala last in Spanish-speaking Latin America, below Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
Indeed, the United Nations has developed a measure of quality of life called the Human Development Index ( UN HDI).
UN's latest human development index (see article), all are in Africa and half have been battered by wars or coups in the past decade.
UN's Human Development Index a dismal 160th out of 174 countries.
Supporting evidence: In 2010, the United Nations ranked China 92nd on its Human Development Index, and the IMF places it 94th in terms of GDP per capita.
Where there is widespread poverty, it is also much easier to find out higher level of illiteracy and a shorter life expectancy, to refer to the key elements of the Human Development Index.
Using the recent discussion of the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which relates quality of life with access to energy ( The Middle Class, Energy And Terrorism), we can speculate as to whether Egypt will be better off after the Arab Spring than before it.
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When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.
On the United Nations Development Programme's human-development index, Nepal comes 140th out of 177 countries.
On the UN Development Programme's human-development index, a general measure of wellbeing, Turkey comes below Russia, Albania and Romania.
Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.
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