United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
The Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990 with the single goal of putting people back at the center of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy and advocacy.
The HDI – human development index – is a summary composite index that measures a country's average achievements in three basic aspects of human development: health, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Health is measured by life expectancy at birth; knowledge is measured by a combination of the adult literacy rate and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrolment ratio; and standard of living by GDP per capita (PPP US$). The HDI was created to re-emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth.
There are 177 locations for evaluation in 2007/2008 by UNDP, and the rankings are listed on the website http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
Australia ranked 3
Canada ranked 4
United States ranked 12
Hong Kong SAR ranked 21
Singapore ranked 25
China ranked 81
Source: United Nations Development Programme(n.d.). 2007/2008 Human Development Index rankings. Retrieved from http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
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