{"id":48516,"date":"2010-11-05T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/05\/armenia-falls-behind-azerbaijan-georgia-in-human-development\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T02:09:00","slug":"armenia-falls-behind-azerbaijan-georgia-in-human-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/05\/armenia-falls-behind-azerbaijan-georgia-in-human-development.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Falls Behind Azerbaijan, Georgia in Human Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Armenia was ranked 76th out of 170 countries, having &#8220;high development,&#8221; in a 2010 UN report on human development which uses a single statistic to combine indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income into a composite Human Development Index (HDI).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Armenia&#8217;s profile, in short, is as follows: life expectancy at birth: 74.2 years; mean years of schooling (of adults): 10.8 years; and income (GNI) per capita: $5,494.61 USD (considering 2008 data).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Note that out of the former Soviet countries, only Estonia (at 34th place) has succeeded in making it to the &#8220;high human development&#8221; list which groups countries in first to 42nd place in the index.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Armenia surpasses Turkey (at 83rd place) in HDI; however, falls behind Georgia (74) and Azerbaijan (67). That being said, all four countries in the region are in the same category: &#8220;high human development&#8221; (rankings 43rd to 85th).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Topping the list of countries with the highest human development index are Norway, Australia, New Zealand, United States and Ireland in that order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The countries ranked with the lowest human development index include Mozambique, Burundi, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">A number of countries had to be considered separately by the UN since the organization did not have the opportunity to gather sufficient information on them. 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