% Human Development Index [DATA] % United Nations Development Program compiled an Index of Human % Development. Column 1: Country(character) 2: Index 3: GNP % % % GNP PER % CAPITA RANK RANK - % RANK HDI 1987 GNP RANK % % 1 Niger 0.116 20 -19 % 2 Mali 0.143 15 -13 % 3 Burkina Faso 0.150 13 -10 % 4 Sierra Leone 0.150 27 -23 % 5 Chad 0.157 4 1 % % 6 Guinea 0.162 31 -25 % 7 Somalia 0.200 23 -16 % 8 Mauritania 0.208 40 -32 % 9 Afghanistan 0.212 17 -8 % 10 Benin 0.212 28 -18 % % 11 Burundi 0.235 18 -7 % 12 Bhutan 0.236 3 9 % 13 Mozambique 0.239 10 3 % 14 Malawi 0.250 7 7 % 15 Sudan 0.255 32 -17 % % 16 Central Afr. Rep. 0.258 29 -13 % 17 Nepal 0.273 8 9 % 18 Senegal 0.274 43 -25 % 19 Ethiopia 0.282 1 18 % 20 Zaire 0.294 5 15 % % 21 Rwanda 0.304 26 -5 % 22 Angola 0.304 58 -36 % 23 Bangladesh 0.318 6 17 % 24 Nigeria 0.322 36 -12 % 25 Yemen Arab Rep. 0.328 47 -22 % % 26 Liberia 0.333 42 -16 % 27 Togo 0.337 24 3 % 28 Uganda 0.354 21 7 % 29 Haiti 0.356 34 -5 % 30 Ghana 0.360 37 -7 % % 31 Yemen PDR 0.369 39 -8 % 32 Cote d'Ivoire 0.393 52 -20 % 33 Congo 0.395 59 -26 % 34 Namibia 0.404 60 -26 % 35 Tanzania 0.413 12 23 % % 36 Pakistan 0.423 33 3 % 37 India 0.439 25 12 % 38 Madagascar 0.440 14 24 % 39 Papua New Guinea 0.471 50 -11 % 40 Kampuchea 0.471 2 38 % % 41 Cameroon 0.474 64 -23 % 42 Kenya 0.481 30 12 % 43 Zambia 0.481 19 24 % 44 Morocco 0.489 48 -4 % 45 Egypt 0.501 49 -4 % % 46 Laos 0.506 9 37 % 47 Gabon 0.525 93 -46 % 48 Oman 0.535 104 -56 % 49 Bolivia 0.548 44 5 % 50 Burma (Myanmar) 0.561 11 39 % % 51 Honduras 0.563 53 -2 % 52 Zimbabwe 0.576 45 7 % 53 Lesotho 0.580 35 18 % 54 Indonesia 0.591 41 13 % 55 Guatemala 0.592 63 -8 % % 56 Viet Nam 0.608 16 40 % 57 Algeria 0.609 91 -34 % 58 Botwswana 0.646 69 -11 % 59 El Salvador 0.651 56 3 % 60 Tunisia 0.657 70 -10 % % 61 Iran 0.660 97 -36 % 62 Syria 0.691 79 -17 % 63 Dominican Rep. 0.699 51 12 % 64 Saudi Arabia 0.702 107 -43 % 65 Philipines 0.714 46 19 % % 66 China 0.716 22 44 % 67 Libya 0.719 103 -36 % 68 South Africa 0.731 82 -14 % 69 Lebanon 0.735 78 -9 % 70 Mongolia 0.737 57 13 % % 71 Nicaragua 0.743 54 17 % 72 Turkey 0.751 71 1 % 73 Jordan 0.752 76 -3 % 74 Peru 0.753 74 0 % 75 Ecuador 0.758 68 7 % % 76 Iraq 0.759 96 -20 % 77 United Arab Emir. 0.782 127 -50 % 78 Thailand 0.783 55 23 % 79 Paraguay 0.784 65 14 % 80 Brazil 0.784 85 -5 % % 81 Mauritius 0.788 75 6 % 82 Korea, Dem. Rep. 0.789 67 15 % 83 Sri Lanka 0.789 38 45 % 84 Albania 0.790 61 23 % 85 Malaysia 0.800 80 5 % % 86 Colombia 0.801 72 14 % 87 Jamaica 0.824 62 25 % 88 Kuwait 0.824 122 -34 % 89 Venezuela 0.861 95 -6 % 90 Romania 0.863 84 6 % % 91 Mexico 0.876 81 10 % 92 Cuba 0.877 66 26 % 93 Panama 0.883 88 5 % 94 Trinidad/Tobago 0.885 100 -6 % 95 Portugal 0.899 94 1 % % 96 Singapore 0.899 110 -14 % 97 Korea, Rep. 0.903 92 5 % 98 Poland 0.910 83 15 % 99 Argentina 0.910 89 10 % 100 Yugoslavia 0.913 90 10 % % 101 Hungary 0.915 87 14 % 102 Uruguay 0.916 86 16 % 103 Costa Rica 0.916 77 26 % 104 Bulgaria 0.918 99 5 % 105 USSR 0.920 101 4 % % 106 Czechoslovakia 0.931 102 4 % 107 Chile 0.931 73 34 % 108 Hong Kong 0.936 111 -3 % 109 Greece 0.946 98 11 % 110 German Dem. Rep. 0.953 115 -5 % % 111 Israel 0.957 108 3 % 112 USA 0.961 129 -17 % 113 Austria 0.961 118 -5 % 114 Ireland 0.961 106 8 % 115 Spain 0.965 105 10 % % 116 Belgium 0.966 116 0 % 117 Italy 0.966 112 5 % 118 New Zealand 0.966 109 9 % 119 Germany, Fed. R. 0.967 120 -1 % 120 Finland 0.967 121 -1 % % 121 United Kingdom 0.970 113 8 % 122 Denmark 0.971 123 -1 % 123 France 0.974 119 4 % 124 Australia 0.978 114 10 % 125 Norway 0.983 128 -3 % % 126 Canada 0.983 124 2 % 127 Netherlands 0.984 117 10 % 128 Switzerland 0.986 130 -2 % 129 Sweden 0.987 125 4 % 130 Japan 0.996 126 4 % % % [From 5 September "Mennonite Weekly Review"] % % Posted on Activist's Mailing List (ACTIV-L@UMCVMB) which should % legally place the data in the public domain, right? % % Copied from there and contributed by Tim Arnold (arnold@stat.ncsu.edu) % % ================================================================ % % Human Development Index [INFO] % United Nations Development Program compiled an Index of Human % Development. Information file companion to the DATA file. % ============================================================================ % % To measure the quality of life in a nation, the United Nations Development % Program started figuring a Human Development Index. A nation's HDI is % composed of life expectancy, adult literacy and Gross National Product per % capita. % % By combining these three elements and by pitting each nation's indicators % against "the best," we come up with a worldwide HDI. Comparing the HDI % rating with the traditional GNP per capita rating reveals some poor % countries' remarkable progress in human development. % % These countries got more bang for their development buck by giving their % aid to the most needy people. The comparison also shows that some % countries, including the U.S., did not translate their wealth into social % benefits. % % In the HDI rankings, the Arab and Moslem countries come out poorly, mainly % because of low literacy among women. The formerly communist countries % come out rather well because literacy is a priority and their GNP is % generally low. % % Latin America comes out with many plusses because their GNPs are low while % they still enjoy the higher literacy and improved health-care investments % of earlier years. % % Africa is a mixed lot. Some oil exporters, such as Angola, Gabon, % Cameroon and the Congo, did not translate their wealth into social % benefits. Others--Tanzania, Madagascar, Zambia, which have poorly managed % economies--were still able to improve their people's health and schooling. % % Among the wealthier countries, the physical and educational benefits % generally kept pace with improved economies. An exception is the U.S., % where the economy flourished in the '80s but social services stagnated and % declined. % % The chart below lists the world's countries according to their Human % Development Index--a measure of quality of life based on life expectancy, % adult literacy and Gross National Product per capita. The nations are % ranked from lowest quality of life to highest. The "HDI rank minus GNP % rank column measures how well the nations translate the wealth they have % into benefits for their citizens. A positive number in this column % indicates the country makes good use of its resources to help its people. % A negative number indicates it does not. % ======================================================================= % Posted on Activist's Mailing List (ACTIV-L@UMCVMB) which should % legally place the data in the public domain, right? % % Copied from there and contributed by Tim Arnold (arnold@stat.ncsu.edu) % % % % Information about the dataset % CLASSTYPE: numeric % CLASSINDEX: none specific % @relation humandevel @attribute rank INTEGER @attribute country {Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Australia,Austria,Bangladesh,Belgium,Benin,Bhutan,Bolivia,Botwswana,Brazil,Bulgaria,Burkina_Faso,Burma_(Myanmar),Burundi,Cameroon,Canada,Central_Afr_Rep,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia,Congo,Costa_Rica,Cote_dIvoire,Cuba,Czechoslovakia,Denmark,Dominican_Rep,Ecuador,Egypt,El_Salvador,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,German_Dem_Rep,Germany_Fed_R,Ghana,Greece,Guatemala,Guinea,Haiti,Honduras,Hong_Kong,Hungary,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kampuchea,Kenya,Korea_Dem_Rep,Korea_Rep,Kuwait,Laos,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mexico,Mongolia,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,New_Zealand,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Panama,Papua_New_Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philipines,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Rwanda,Saudi_Arabia,Senegal,Sierra_Leone,Singapore,Somalia,South_Africa,Spain,Sri_Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad_Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,USA,USSR,Uganda,United_Arab_Emir,United_Kingdom,Uruguay,Venezuela,Viet_Nam,Yemen_Arab_Rep,Yemen_PDR,Yugoslavia,Zaire,Zambia,Zimbabwe} @attribute hdi REAL @attribute gnp_per_capita INTEGER @data 1,Niger,0.116,20 2,Mali,0.143,15 3,Burkina_Faso,0.150,13 4,Sierra_Leone,0.150,27 5,Chad,0.157,4 6,Guinea,0.162,31 7,Somalia,0.200,23 8,Mauritania,0.208,40 9,Afghanistan,0.212,17 10,Benin,0.212,28 11,Burundi,0.235,18 12,Bhutan,0.236,3 13,Mozambique,0.239,10 14,Malawi,0.250,7 15,Sudan,0.255,32 16,Central_Afr_Rep,0.258,29 17,Nepal,0.273,8 18,Senegal,0.274,43 19,Ethiopia,0.282,1 20,Zaire,0.294,5 21,Rwanda,0.304,26 22,Angola,0.304,58 23,Bangladesh,0.318,6 24,Nigeria,0.322,36 25,Yemen_Arab_Rep,0.328,47 26,Liberia,0.333,42 27,Togo,0.337,24 28,Uganda,0.354,21 29,Haiti,0.356,34 30,Ghana,0.360,37 31,Yemen_PDR,0.369,39 32,Cote_dIvoire,0.393,52 33,Congo,0.395,59 34,Namibia,0.404,60 35,Tanzania,0.413,12 36,Pakistan,0.423,33 37,India,0.439,25 38,Madagascar,0.440,14 39,Papua_New_Guinea,0.471,50 40,Kampuchea,0.471,2 41,Cameroon,0.474,64 42,Kenya,0.481,30 43,Zambia,0.481,19 44,Morocco,0.489,48 45,Egypt,0.501,49 46,Laos,0.506,9 47,Gabon,0.525,93 48,Oman,0.535,104 49,Bolivia,0.548,44 50,Burma_(Myanmar),0.561,11 51,Honduras,0.563,53 52,Zimbabwe,0.576,45 53,Lesotho,0.580,35 54,Indonesia,0.591,41 55,Guatemala,0.592,63 56,Viet_Nam,0.608,16 57,Algeria,0.609,91 58,Botwswana,0.646,69 59,El_Salvador,0.651,56 60,Tunisia,0.657,70 61,Iran,0.660,97 62,Syria,0.691,79 63,Dominican_Rep,0.699,51 64,Saudi_Arabia,0.702,107 65,Philipines,0.714,46 66,China,0.716,22 67,Libya,0.719,103 68,South_Africa,0.731,82 69,Lebanon,0.735,78 70,Mongolia,0.737,57 71,Nicaragua,0.743,54 72,Turkey,0.751,71 73,Jordan,0.752,76 74,Peru,0.753,74 75,Ecuador,0.758,68 76,Iraq,0.759,96 77,United_Arab_Emir,0.782,127 78,Thailand,0.783,55 79,Paraguay,0.784,65 80,Brazil,0.784,85 81,Mauritius,0.788,75 82,Korea_Dem_Rep,0.789,67 83,Sri_Lanka,0.789,38 84,Albania,0.790,61 85,Malaysia,0.800,80 86,Colombia,0.801,72 87,Jamaica,0.824,62 88,Kuwait,0.824,122 89,Venezuela,0.861,95 90,Romania,0.863,84 91,Mexico,0.876,81 92,Cuba,0.877,66 93,Panama,0.883,88 94,Trinidad_Tobago,0.885,100 95,Portugal,0.899,94 96,Singapore,0.899,110 97,Korea_Rep,0.903,92 98,Poland,0.910,83 99,Argentina,0.910,89 100,Yugoslavia,0.913,90 101,Hungary,0.915,87 102,Uruguay,0.916,86 103,Costa_Rica,0.916,77 104,Bulgaria,0.918,99 105,USSR,0.920,101 106,Czechoslovakia,0.931,102 107,Chile,0.931,73 108,Hong_Kong,0.936,111 109,Greece,0.946,98 110,German_Dem_Rep,0.953,115 111,Israel,0.957,108 112,USA,0.961,129 113,Austria,0.961,118 114,Ireland,0.961,106 115,Spain,0.965,105 116,Belgium,0.966,116 117,Italy,0.966,112 118,New_Zealand,0.966,109 119,Germany_Fed_R,0.967,120 120,Finland,0.967,121 121,United_Kingdom,0.970,113 122,Denmark,0.971,123 123,France,0.974,119 124,Australia,0.978,114 125,Norway,0.983,128 126,Canada,0.983,124 127,Netherlands,0.984,117 128,Switzerland,0.986,130 129,Sweden,0.987,125 130,Japan,0.996,126