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Human Development Index (HDI)
Human Development Index is a tool developed by UNDP to illustrate the total life quality in a country. Factors like GDP per capita, life expectancy, enrollment rate and adult literacy rate are used to create a value where 1.0 is the highest possible score. With the calculation methods used, a country cannot score 0.0. LookLex also include the Education index.
 Factors like safety, climate and culture are not included, although they can have decisive impact on the quality of life felt by the inhabitants of a country.
Altogether 177 countries were included in the measuring in 2002. Among the 10 top countries, 6 were European. The other countries were Australia, United States, Canada and Japan. Among the 10 bottom countries, all were African.
Countries with an index above 0.8 are called "High human development", countries with indexes between 0.799 and 0.5 are called "Medium human development", while countries below 0.5 are called "Low human development".
*) Iraq was not included on the list, its listing here is the last ranking early 2000's.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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