ARMENIA RANKS 83 IN UNDP ANNUAL REPORT

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.11.2007 18:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iceland topped the United Nations 2007 Human
Development Index report released Tuesday.

The other top placers in the survey are Norway, which slipped to
second place, Australia, Canada and Ireland. The U.S. went down to
12th rank from its 8th place in 2006.

UK ranks 16; Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia rank 43, 44 and 45
respectively.

Belarus and Russia (64 and 67) were included in the group of 70 states
with the highest human development indices.

The other CIS member states were ranked as states with middle human
development index: Kazakhstan (73), Ukraine (76), Armenia (83), Georgia
(96), Azerbaijan (98), Turkmenistan (109), Moldova (111), Uzbekistan
(113), Kyrgyzstan (116) and Tajikistan (122).

The UNDP ranked 175 UN member nations, including Hong Kong and
Palestinian territories, but excluded 17 countries including Iraq,
Afghanistan and Somalia due to lack of data. It has been publishing
the annual Human Development Index report since 1990.

The index measures life expectancy, literacy, education and standard
of living. With its benchmarks, nations are classified as developed,
developing or underdeveloped, the UN press center said.