HDI

Human Development Index

World rank	Country	HDI index
23.	Israel	0.927
33.	Kuwait	0.871
39.	Bahrain	0.859
46.	Qatar	0.844
49.	UAE	0.839
56.	Oman	0.810
64.	Libya	0.798
76.	Saudi Arabia	0.777
78.	Lebanon	0.774
86.	Jordan	0.760
87.	Tunisia	0.760
92.	Turkey	0.757
96.	Iran	0.746
100.	Palestine	0.736
102.	Algeria	0.728
107.	Syria	0.716
111.	Egypt	0.702
123.	Morocco	0.640
(130.)	Iraq	0.567
141.	Sudan	0.516
150.	Yemen	0.492
153.	Mauritania	0.486
2006 figures. Iraq was not included on the list, its listing here is the last ranking early 2000's.

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, the quality of the education and the 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.

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".

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... Libya
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... Tunisia
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