HDI Rankings of Facebook "Democracy Movement" Nation-states

All I've done here is take the UN Human Development Index, (developed by Mahbub-ul-Huq of Pakistan and Amartya Sen of India), HDI 2010 rankings and bolded the ones that apply to the Facebook West Asia and Africa Arab "Democracy Movement" Nation States -- Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya. Persons who are interested might ask questions about the HDI rankings and how these might relate to civil society development within the geopolitical constraints faced by these nation-states. [ I have to come back to keep working on this for my own understanding of HDI and Social Justice/Greater Collective Good - GCG- concepts. Still haven't been able to find an economist to help me with an index for the GCG].

At this time I simply don't have enough evidence, aside from these UNDP rankings, to gauge what civil society development trajectories might look like in the case of each Arab nation-state currently engaged in "democracy movements".

Having said that, it is difficult to fathom how slipping CIA operatives into Libya plus airstrikes by NATO can hold the key to civil society development and social justice thru access to education, healthcare, housing, jobs.

Below is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report released on 4 November 2010, compiled on the basis of estimates for 2010. It covers 168 UN member states (out of 192) and Hong Kong, China. 24 UN member states are not included due to lack of data. The average HDI of regions of the World and groups of countries are also included for comparison.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq[2] and Indian economist Amartya Sen[citation needed].

Countries fall into four broad human development categories, each of which comprises 42 countries (except for the second category, comprising 43 countries).[3] The divisions are:
Division comprising:
Very high 42 countries
High 43 countries
Medium 42 countries
Low 42 countries

Due to the new methodology adopted in 2010 HD Report, its HDI figures appear lower than the HDI figures in previous reports.

Starting in the report for 2007, the first category is referred to as developed countries, and the last three are all grouped in developing countries. The original "high human development" category has been split into two as above in the report for 2007.

Some older groupings (high/medium/low income countries) have been removed that were based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross national income (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita.
Contents
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1 Complete list of countries
1.1 Very high human development (developed countries)
1.2 High human development (developing countries)
1.3 Medium human development (developing countries)
1.4 Low human development (developing countries)
2 List of countries by continent
2.1 Africa
2.2 Americas
2.3 Asia & Oceania
2.4 Europe
3 List of countries by non-continental region
3.1 Arab states
3.2 European Union
3.3 East Asia and the Pacific
3.4 Latin America
3.5 Middle East and North Africa
4 HDI by regions & groups
5 Countries missing from latest report
5.1 UN member states (latest UNDP data)
5.2 Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Complete list of countries

increase = increase.
steady = steady.
decrease = decrease.
Similar HDI values in the current list do not lead to ranking ties, since the HDI rank is actually determined using HDI values to the sixth decimal point.
This revision of the index was released on 4 November 2010 and estimates the HDI of countries for 2010.
The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down) relative to the revised estimates for 2007, released on 5 October 2009.

[edit] Very high human development (developed countries)
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
1 steady Norway 0.938 increase 0.001
2 steady Australia 0.937 increase 0.002
3 increase (17) New Zealand 0.907 increase 0.003
4 increase (9) United States 0.902 increase 0.003
5 steady Ireland 0.895 increase 0.001
6 increase (13) Liechtenstein 0.891 increase 0.002
7 decrease (1) Netherlands 0.890 increase 0.002
8 decrease (4) Canada 0.888 increase 0.002
9 decrease (2) Sweden 0.885 increase 0.001
10 increase (12) Germany 0.885 increase 0.002
11 decrease (1) Japan 0.884 increase 0.003
12 increase (14) South Korea 0.877 increase 0.005
13 decrease (4) Switzerland 0.874 increase 0.002
14 decrease (6) France 0.872 increase 0.003
15 increase (12) Israel 0.872 increase 0.001
16 decrease (4) Finland 0.871 increase 0.002
17 decrease (14) Iceland 0.869 steady
18 decrease (1) Belgium 0.867 increase 0.002
19 decrease (3) Denmark 0.866 increase 0.002
20 decrease (5) Spain 0.863 increase 0.002
21 increase (3) Hong Kong 0.862 increase 0.005

Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
22 increase (3) Greece 0.855 increase 0.002
23 decrease (5) Italy 0.854 increase 0.003
24 decrease (13) Luxembourg 0.852 increase 0.002
25 decrease (11) Austria 0.851 increase 0.002
26 decrease (5) United Kingdom 0.849 increase 0.002
27 decrease (5) Singapore 0.846 increase 0.005
28 increase (8) Czech Republic 0.841 steady
29 steady Slovenia 0.828 increase 0.002
30 increase (2) Andorra 0.824 increase 0.002
31 increase (11) Slovakia 0.818 increase 0.003
32 increase (3) United Arab Emirates 0.815 increase 0.003
33 increase (5) Malta 0.815 increase 0.002
34 increase (6) Estonia 0.812 increase 0.003
35 decrease (3) Cyprus 0.810 increase 0.001
36 increase (7) Hungary 0.805 increase 0.002
37 decrease (7) Brunei 0.805 increase 0.001
38 decrease (5) Qatar 0.803 increase 0.005
39 steady Bahrain 0.801 increase 0.003
40 decrease (6) Portugal 0.795 increase 0.004
41 steady Poland 0.795 increase 0.004
42 decrease (5) Barbados 0.788 increase 0.001
[edit] High human development (developing countries)
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
43 increase (9) Bahamas 0.784 increase 0.001
44 increase (2) Lithuania 0.783 increase 0.001
45 decrease (1) Chile 0.783 increase 0.004
46 increase (3) Argentina 0.775 increase 0.003
47 decrease (16) Kuwait 0.771 increase 0.002
48 steady Latvia 0.769 steady
49 increase (16) Montenegro 0.769 increase 0.001
50 increase (13) Romania 0.767 increase 0.003
51 decrease (6) Croatia 0.767 increase 0.002
52 decrease (2) Uruguay 0.765 increase 0.005
53 increase (2) Libya 0.755 increase 0.006
54 increase (6) Panama 0.755 increase 0.004
55 increase (4) Saudi Arabia 0.752 increase 0.004
56 decrease (3) Mexico 0.750 increase 0.005
57 increase (9) Malaysia 0.744 increase 0.005
58 increase (3) Bulgaria 0.743 increase 0.002
59 increase (5) Trinidad and Tobago 0.736 increase 0.004
60 increase (7) Serbia 0.735 increase 0.002
61 increase (7) Belarus 0.732 increase 0.003
62 decrease (8) Costa Rica 0.725 increase 0.002
63 increase (15) Peru 0.723 increase 0.005
64 increase (6) Albania 0.719 increase 0.003

Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
65 increase (6) Russia 0.719 increase 0.005
66 increase (16) Kazakhstan 0.714 increase 0.003
67 increase (19) Azerbaijan 0.713 increase 0.003
68 increase (8) Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.710 increase 0.001
69 increase (16) Ukraine 0.710 increase 0.004
70 increase (18) Iran 0.702 increase 0.005
71 increase (1) Macedonia 0.701 increase 0.004
72 increase (9) Mauritius 0.701 increase 0.004
73 increase (2) Brazil 0.699 increase 0.006
74 increase (15) Georgia 0.698 increase 0.003
75 decrease (17) Venezuela 0.696 steady
76 increase (8) Armenia 0.695 increase 0.002
77 increase (3) Ecuador 0.695 increase 0.003
78 increase (15) Belize 0.694 steady
79 decrease (2) Colombia 0.689 increase 0.004
80 increase (20) Jamaica 0.688 increase 0.002
81 increase (17) Tunisia 0.683 increase 0.006
82 increase (14) Jordan 0.681 increase 0.004
83 decrease (4) Turkey 0.679 increase 0.005
84 increase (20) Algeria 0.677 increase 0.006
85 increase (14) Tonga 0.677 increase 0.002
[edit] Medium human development (developing countries)
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
86 increase (2) Fiji 0.669 increase 0.002
87 decrease (1) Turkmenistan 0.669 increase 0.007
88 decrease (1) Dominican Republic 0.663 increase 0.003
89 increase (2) China 0.663 increase 0.008
90 decrease (1) El Salvador 0.659 increase 0.004
91 increase (2) Sri Lanka 0.658 increase 0.005
92 increase (7) Thailand 0.654 increase 0.006
93 decrease (3) Gabon 0.648 increase 0.006
94 increase (2) Suriname 0.646 increase 0.003
95 increase (2) Bolivia 0.643 increase 0.006
96 decrease (1) Paraguay 0.640 increase 0.006
97 increase (1) Philippines 0.638 increase 0.003
98 increase (2) Botswana 0.633 increase 0.006
99 decrease (5) Moldova 0.623 increase 0.003
100 decrease (8) Mongolia 0.622 increase 0.006
101 steady Egypt 0.620 increase 0.006
102 steady Uzbekistan 0.617 increase 0.005
103 steady Micronesia, Federated States of 0.614 increase 0.002
104 steady Guyana 0.611 increase 0.006
105 steady Namibia 0.606 increase 0.003
106 steady Honduras 0.604 increase 0.003

Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
107 increase (2) Maldives 0.602 increase 0.007
108 decrease (1) Indonesia 0.600 increase 0.007
109 decrease (1) Kyrgyzstan 0.598 increase 0.004
110 steady South Africa 0.597 increase 0.003
111 steady Syria 0.589 increase 0.003
112 steady Tajikistan 0.580 increase 0.004
113 steady Vietnam 0.572 increase 0.006
114 steady Morocco 0.567 increase 0.005
115 increase (1) Nicaragua 0.565 increase 0.003
116 decrease (1) Guatemala 0.560 increase 0.004
117 steady Equatorial Guinea 0.538 increase 0.002
118 steady Cape Verde 0.534 increase 0.003
119 steady India 0.519 increase 0.007
120 steady Timor-Leste 0.502 increase 0.005
121 steady Swaziland 0.498 increase 0.006
122 increase (1) Laos 0.497 increase 0.007
123 decrease (1) Solomon Islands 0.494 increase 0.002
124 steady Cambodia 0.494 increase 0.005
125 increase (1) Pakistan 0.490 increase 0.003
126 decrease (1) Congo 0.489 increase 0.006
127 steady São Tomé and Príncipe 0.488 increase 0.003
[edit] Low human development (developing countries)
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
128 increase (1) Kenya 0.470 increase 0.006
129 decrease (1) Bangladesh 0.469 increase 0.006
130 steady Ghana 0.467 increase 0.004
131 steady Cameroon 0.460 increase 0.004
132 increase (1) Burma 0.451 increase 0.007
133 decrease (1) Yemen 0.439 increase 0.008
134 steady Benin 0.435 increase 0.003
135 steady Madagascar 0.435 decrease 0.001
136 steady Mauritania 0.433 increase 0.004
137 steady Papua New Guinea 0.431 increase 0.005
138 steady Nepal 0.428 increase 0.005
139 steady Togo 0.428 increase 0.003
140 increase (1) Comoros 0.428 increase 0.002
141 increase (1) Lesotho 0.427 increase 0.004
142 decrease (2) Nigeria 0.423 increase 0.004
143 steady Uganda 0.422 increase 0.006
144 steady Senegal 0.411 increase 0.003
145 steady Haiti 0.404 decrease 0.006
146 increase (2) Angola 0.403 increase 0.004
147 steady Djibouti 0.402 increase 0.003
148 decrease (2) Tanzania 0.398 increase 0.006

Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to old 2009 values for 2007 New 2010 estimates for 2010
[4] Change compared to new 2010 estimates for 2009
[4]
149 steady Côte d'Ivoire 0.397 increase 0.003
150 steady Zambia 0.395 increase 0.008
151 steady Gambia 0.390 increase 0.005
152 increase (2) Rwanda 0.385 increase 0.006
153 decrease (1) Malawi 0.385 increase 0.009
154 decrease (1) Sudan 0.379 increase 0.004
155 steady Afghanistan 0.349 increase 0.007
156 steady Guinea 0.340 increase 0.002
157 increase (1) Ethiopia 0.328 increase 0.004
158 decrease (1) Sierra Leone 0.317 increase 0.004
159 steady Central African Republic 0.315 increase 0.004
160 increase (1) Mali 0.309 increase 0.004
161 decrease (1) Burkina Faso 0.305 increase 0.002
162 steady Liberia 0.300 increase 0.006
163 steady Chad 0.295 increase 0.002
164 steady Guinea-Bissau 0.289 increase 0.003
165 steady Mozambique 0.284 increase 0.004
166 steady Burundi 0.282 increase 0.006
167 steady Niger 0.261 increase 0.003
168 steady Democratic Republic of Congo 0.239 increase 0.006
169 steady Zimbabwe 0.140 increase 0.022
[edit] List of countries by continent
[edit] Africa

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
High human development
1 Libya 0.755
2 Mauritius 0.701
3 Tunisia 0.683
4 Algeria 0.677
Medium human development
5 Gabon 0.648
6 Botswana 0.633
7 Egypt 0.620
8 Namibia 0.606
9 South Africa 0.597
10 Morocco 0.567


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Zimbabwe 0.140
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.239
3 Niger 0.261
4 Burundi 0.282
5 Mozambique 0.284
6 Guinea-Bissau 0.289
7 Chad 0.295
8 Liberia 0.300
9 Burkina Faso 0.305
10 Mali 0.309
[edit] Americas

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 United States 0.902
2 Canada 0.888
3 Barbados 0.788
High human development
4 Bahamas 0.784
5 Chile 0.783
6 Argentina 0.775
7 Uruguay 0.765
8 Panama 0.755
9 Mexico 0.750
10 Trinidad and Tobago 0.736


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Haiti 0.404
Medium human development
2 Guatemala 0.560
3 Nicaragua 0.565
4 Honduras 0.604
5 Guyana 0.611
6 Paraguay 0.640
7 Bolivia 0.643
8 Suriname 0.646
9 El Salvador 0.659
10 Dominican Republic 0.663
[edit] Asia & Oceania

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 Australia 0.937
2 New Zealand 0.907
3 Japan 0.884
4 South Korea 0.877
5 Israel 0.872
6 Hong Kong 0.862
7 Singapore 0.846
8 United Arab Emirates 0.815
9 Cyprus 0.810
10 Brunei 0.805


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Afghanistan 0.349
2 Nepal 0.428
3 Papua New Guinea 0.431
4 Yemen 0.439
5 Myanmar 0.451
6 Bangladesh 0.469
Medium human development
7 Pakistan 0.490
8 Cambodia 0.494
9 Solomon Islands 0.494
10 Laos 0.497
[edit] Europe

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 Norway 0.938
2 Ireland 0.895
3 Liechtenstein 0.891
4 Netherlands 0.890
5 Sweden 0.885
6 Germany 0.885
7 Switzerland 0.874
8 France 0.872
9 Finland 0.871
10 Iceland 0.869


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Medium human development
1 Moldova 0.623
High human development
2 Turkey 0.683
3 Armenia 0.695
4 Georgia 0.698
5 Macedonia 0.701
6 Ukraine 0.710
7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.710
8 Azerbaijan 0.713
9 Kazakhstan 0.714
10 Russia 0.719[nb 1]
[edit] List of countries by non-continental region
[edit] Arab states

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 United Arab Emirates 0.815
2 Qatar 0.803
3 Bahrain 0.801
High human development
4 Kuwait 0.771
5 Libya 0.755
6 Saudi Arabia 0.752
7 Tunisia 0.683
8 Jordan 0.681
9 Algeria 0.677
Medium human development
10 Egypt 0.620


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Sudan 0.379
2 Djibouti 0.402
3 Comoros 0.428
4 Mauritania 0.433
5 Yemen 0.439
Medium human development
6 Morocco 0.567
7 Syria 0.589
8 Egypt 0.620
High human development
9 Algeria 0.677
10 Jordan 0.681
[edit] European Union

HDI (average of all members): 0.774

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 Ireland 0.895
2 Netherlands 0.890
3 Sweden 0.885
4 Germany 0.885
5 France 0.872
6 Finland 0.871
7 Belgium 0.867
8 Denmark 0.866
9 Spain 0.863
10 Greece 0.855


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
High human development
1 Bulgaria 0.743
2 Romania 0.767
3 Latvia 0.769
4 Lithuania 0.783
Very high human development
5 Poland 0.795
6 Portugal 0.795
7 Hungary 0.805
8 Cyprus 0.810
9 Estonia 0.812
10 Malta 0.815
[edit] East Asia and the Pacific

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 Australia 0.937
2 New Zealand 0.907
3 Japan 0.884
4 South Korea 0.877
5 Hong Kong 0.862
6 Singapore 0.846
7 Brunei 0.805
High human development
8 Malaysia 0.744
9 Tonga 0.677
Medium human development
10 Fiji 0.669


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Papua New Guinea 0.431
2 Myanmar 0.451
Medium human development
3 Cambodia 0.494
4 Solomon Islands 0.494
5 Laos 0.497
6 Timor-Leste 0.502
7 Vietnam 0.572
8 Indonesia 0.600
9 Micronesia, Federated States of 0.614
10 Mongolia 0.622
[edit] Latin America

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
High human development
1 Chile 0.783
2 Argentina 0.775
3 Uruguay 0.765
4 Panama 0.755
5 Mexico 0.750
6 Costa Rica 0.725
7 Peru 0.723
8 Brazil 0.699
9 Venezuela 0.696
10 Ecuador 0.695


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Haiti 0.404
Medium human development
2 Guatemala 0.560
3 Nicaragua 0.565
4 Honduras 0.604
5 Paraguay 0.640
6 Bolivia 0.643
7 El Salvador 0.659
8 Dominican Republic 0.663
High human development
9 Colombia 0.689
10 Belize 0.694
[edit] Middle East and North Africa

10 highest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Very high human development
1 Israel 0.872
2 United Arab Emirates 0.815
3 Cyprus 0.810
4 Qatar 0.803
5 Bahrain 0.801
High human development
6 Kuwait 0.771
7 Libya 0.755
8 Saudi Arabia 0.752
9 Iran 0.702
10 Tunisia 0.683


10 lowest HDIs
Rank Country HDI
New 2010 estimates for 2010
Low human development
1 Sudan 0.379
2 Yemen 0.439
Medium human development
3 Morocco 0.567
4 Syria 0.589
5 Egypt 0.620
High human development
6 Algeria 0.677
7 Turkey 0.679
8 Jordan 0.681
9 Tunisia 0.683
10 Iran 0.702
[edit] HDI by regions & groups
Region or Group 2010
estimates
for 2010
HDI[5] 2010
estimates
for 2009
HDI[5]
Very high human development
OECD Developed 0.879 increase 0.876
Very High Human Development 0.878 increase 0.875
Non-OECD Developed 0.844 increase 0.840
High human development
High Human Development 0.717 increase 0.712
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.704 increase 0.699
Europe and Central Asia 0.702 increase 0.698
Medium human development
East Asia and the Pacific 0.643 increase 0.636
World 0.624 increase 0.619
Medium Human Development 0.592 increase 0.586
Arab states 0.588 increase 0.583
South Asia 0.516 increase 0.510
Low human development
Low Human Development 0.393 increase 0.388
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.389 increase 0.384
Least developed countries 0.386 increase 0.382
[edit] Countries missing from latest report
[edit] UN member states (latest UNDP data)
Year Country HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
Very high human development
1997 N/A Monaco 0.946 N/A [citation needed]
1997 N/A San Marino 0.944 N/A [citation needed]
High human development
2009 2007 Antigua and Barbuda 0.868 47 [6]
2009 2007 Cuba 0.863 51 [6]
1998 N/A Palau 0.861 N/A [citation needed]
2009 2007 Oman 0.846 56 [6]
2009 2007 Seychelles 0.845 57 [6]
2009 2007 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.838 62 [6]
2009 2007 Saint Lucia 0.821 69 [6]
2009 2007 Dominica 0.814 73 [6]
2009 2007 Grenada 0.813 74 [6]
2009 2007 Lebanon 0.803 83 [6]
Medium human development
2009 2007 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.772 91 [6]
2009 2007 Samoa 0.771 94 [6]
1998 1995 North Korea 0.766 75 [7]
2009 2007 Vanuatu 0.693 126 [6]
1998 N/A Nauru 0.663 N/A [citation needed]
2009 2007 Bhutan 0.619 132 [6]
2000 1998 Iraq 0.583 126 [8]
1998 N/A Tuvalu 0.583 N/A [citation needed]
1998 N/A Marshall Islands 0.563 N/A [citation needed]
1998 N/A Kiribati 0.515 N/A [citation needed]
Low human development
2009 2007 Eritrea 0.472 165 [6]
2001 2001 Somalia 0.384 161 [9][nb 2]

[edit] Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)
Year Country or Territory HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
Very high human development
2010 2010 Republic of China (Taiwan) 0.868 18 [nb 3]
1998 N/A Puerto Rico 0.942 N/A [11]
2008 2005 Martinique 0.929 24 [12]
1998 N/A Greenland 0.927 N/A [13]
2008 2005 Guadeloupe 0.912 28 [12]
2010 2007 Macau 0.944 23 [14]
High human development
2008 2005 New Caledonia 0.878 34 [12]
2007 2004 Réunion 0.870 35 [12][15]
2008 2005 French Polynesia 0.864 42 [12]
2008 2005 French Guiana 0.862 43 [12]
Medium human development
2009 2007 Palestinian territoriesOccupied Palestinian Territories 0.737 110 [6]
2004 2003 Kosovo 0.734 N/A [16]
[edit] See also

Human Development Index
List of countries by Human Development Index/Former reports
List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI
List of African countries by Human Development Index
List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index
List of Australian states and territories by HDI
List of Brazilian states by Human Development Index
American Human Development Report
List of Chilean regions by Human Development Index
List of Chinese administrative divisions by Human Development Index
List of European countries by Human Development Index
List of Indian states by Human Development Index
List of Indonesian provinces by HDI
List of Mexican states by Human Development Index
List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index
List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index
List of Russian federal subjects by HDI
List of Venezuelan states by human development index
Happy Planet Index
OSCE countries statistics
Satisfaction with Life Index

[edit] Notes

^ Human Development Index (HDI) - 2010 Rankings, United Nations Development Programme
^ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
^ Human development Report "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". United Nations Development Programme. p. 139. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/UN_Human_Development_Report_2010_1.PNG Human development Report. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "2010 Human development Report". United Nations Development Programme. pp. 148–151. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
^ a b "2010 Human development Report". United Nations Development Programme. p. 151. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/
^ "The State of Human Development" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
^ "Human Development Report 2000" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2000. p. 163. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
^ "Human Development Report: Somalia 2001" (PDF). 2001. p. 198. Retrieved 26 March 2009.[dead link]
^ "2010中華民國人類發展指數 (HDI)" (in Chinese) (pdf). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
^ "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply the United States's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed].
^ a b c d e f "Les défis de la croissance calédonienne, on page 13" (in French) (PDF). CEROM - INSEE. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
^ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply Denmark's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed].
^ The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2007, Macau would rank 23rd or 24th (tying either Singapore or Hong Kong). "Macao in Figures 2010" (in en). Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
^ "L’Indice de Développement Humain : Une Évaluation pour la réunion" (in French) (PDF). Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD) Université du Sud Toulon-Var. Retrieved 2008-12-10.[dead link]
^ "Human Development Report - Kosovo 2004". UNDP. 2004. p. 14. Retrieved 2011-01-22.

[edit] References

^ See List of Russian federal subjects by HDI.
^ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
^ The UN does not recognize Republic of China or Taiwan as a sovereign state. The HDI report includes Taiwan as part of China when calculating China's figures (see Political status of Taiwan). The ROC's government calculated its HDI to be 0.868, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP for calculating 2010 HDIs.[10]

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Not mere Passive Resistance.

Not mere Civil Disobedience.

But DYNAMIC REFLECTIVE ETHICAL NONVIOLENT ENGAGEMENT by We the People, against the Repressive state.

Gandhi developed the philosophy-in-action of Ahimsa, non-violence.

The Rev. Martin Luther King practiced what he learned from Gandhi's example.

Gandhi used the spinning wheel to spin the Brits right out of India.

Gandhi marched to the sea with We the People to make salt, to defeat a Brit repressive tax on salt that hit the poor most.

Now that historic march by Gandhi has gone all the way to Tahrir Square -- via Facebook!

The spinning wheel was the earlier Technology of Defiance against the repressive state.

Now Facebook is the borderless Technology of Defiance against the repressive state.

First the spinning wheel, now Facebook.

Way to go.

Dr. Chithra KarunaKaran
City University of New York [CUNY]

Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests.html

A Tunisian-Egyptian Link That Shook Arab History
Holly Pickett for The New York Times

Tunis, Jan. 14 Demonstrators climbed the walls of the Interior Ministry as thousands gathered outside to demand the resignation of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The protests that brought down Mr. Ben Ali that day began on Facebook.
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: February 13, 2011


Egyptian Military Dissolves Parliament (February 14, 2011)
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Tunisians Turn to Everyday Matters (February 14, 2011)
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Yemeni Youth Square Off With Forces (February 14, 2011)
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Iranian Leaders Vow to Crush March (February 14, 2011)
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Egypt Erupts in Jubilation as Mubarak Steps Down (February 12, 2011)
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Tunisia Leader Flees and Prime Minister Claims Power (January 15, 2011)

Video: Tahrir Square, a Forum for All (Feb. 14, 2011)

Cairo, Feb. 3 After more than a week of unrest, anti-Mubarak protesters clashed with supporters of the president for control of Tahrir Square. When confronting the police, the protesters wore armor made of cardboard and Pepsi bottles.

The exchange on Facebook was part of a remarkable two-year collaboration that has given birth to a new force in the Arab world — a pan-Arab youth movement dedicated to spreading democracy in a region without it. Young Egyptian and Tunisian activists brainstormed on the use of technology to evade surveillance, commiserated about torture and traded practical tips on how to stand up to rubber bullets and organize barricades.

They fused their secular expertise in social networks with a discipline culled from religious movements and combined the energy of soccer fans with the sophistication of surgeons. Breaking free from older veterans of the Arab political opposition, they relied on tactics of nonviolent resistance channeled from an American scholar through a Serbian youth brigade — but also on marketing tactics borrowed from Silicon Valley.

As their swelling protests shook the Egyptian state, they were locked in a virtual tug of war with a leader with a very different vision — Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak, a wealthy investment banker and ruling-party power broker. Considered the heir apparent to his father until the youth revolt eliminated any thought of dynastic succession, the younger Mubarak pushed his father to hold on to power even after his top generals and the prime minister were urging an exit, according to American officials who tracked Hosni Mubarak’s final days.

The defiant tone of the president’s speech on Thursday, the officials said, was largely his son’s work.

“He was probably more strident than his father was,” said one American official, who characterized Gamal’s role as “sugarcoating what was for Mubarak a disastrous situation.” But the speech backfired, prompting Egypt’s military to force the president out and assert control of what they promise will be a transition to civilian government.

Now the young leaders are looking beyond Egypt. “Tunis is the force that pushed Egypt, but what Egypt did will be the force that will push the world,” said Walid Rachid, one of the members of the April 6 Youth Movement, which helped organize the Jan. 25 protests that set off the uprising. He spoke at a meeting on Sunday night where the members discussed sharing their experiences with similar youth movements in Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Iran.

“If a small group of people in every Arab country went out and persevered as we did, then that would be the end of all the regimes,” he said, joking that the next Arab summit might be “a coming-out party” for all the ascendant youth leaders.

Bloggers Lead the Way

The Egyptian revolt was years in the making. Ahmed Maher, a 30-year-old civil engineer and a leading organizer of the April 6 Youth Movement, first became engaged in a political movement known as Kefaya, or Enough, in about 2005. Mr. Maher and others organized their own brigade, Youth for Change. But they could not muster enough followers; arrests decimated their leadership ranks, and many of those left became mired in the timid, legally recognized opposition parties. “What destroyed the movement was the old parties,” said Mr. Maher, who has since been arrested four times.

By 2008, many of the young organizers had retreated to their computer keyboards and turned into bloggers, attempting to raise support for a wave of isolated labor strikes set off by government privatizations and runaway inflation.

After a strike that March in the city of Malhalla, Egypt, Mr. Maher and his friends called for a nationwide general strike for April 6. To promote it, they set up a Facebook group that became the nexus of their movement, which they were determined to keep independent from any of the established political groups. Bad weather turned the strike into a nonevent in most places, but in Malhalla a demonstration by the workers’ families led to a violent police crackdown — the first major labor confrontation in years.

Just a few months later, after a strike in the Tunisian city of Hawd el-Mongamy, a group of young online organizers followed the same model, setting up what became the Progressive Youth of Tunisia. The organizers in both countries began exchanging their experiences over Facebook. The Tunisians faced a more pervasive police state than the Egyptians, with less latitude for blogging or press freedom, but their trade unions were stronger and more independent. “We shared our experience with strikes and blogging,” Mr. Maher recalled.

For their part, Mr. Maher and his colleagues began reading about nonviolent struggles. They were especially drawn to a Serbian youth movement called Otpor, which had helped topple the dictator Slobodan Milosevic by drawing on the ideas of an American political thinker, Gene Sharp. The hallmark of Mr. Sharp’s work is well-tailored to Mr. Mubark’s Egypt: He argues that nonviolence is a singularly effective way to undermine police states that might cite violent resistance to justify repression in the name of stability.

The April 6 Youth Movement modeled its logo — a vaguely Soviet looking red and white clenched fist—after Otpor’s, and some of its members traveled to Serbia to meet with Otpor activists.

Another influence, several said, was a group of Egyptian expatriates in their 30s who set up an organization in Qatar called the Academy of Change, which promotes ideas drawn in part on Mr. Sharp’s work. One of the group’s organizers, Hisham Morsy, was arrested during the Cairo protests and remained in detention.



David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Cairo, and David E. Sanger from Washington. Kareem Fahim and Mona El-Naggar contributed reporting from Cairo, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington.
A version of this article appeared in print on February 14, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition.



* Tunisia
* Egypt
* Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots
* Mubarak, Hosni

UNESCO Deserves An Authentic PROVEN Leader, not a HATER

Comment #26.
New York Times
EthicalDemocracy
Chennai, Tamil Nadu India
September 7th, 2009
9:23 am


EthicalDemocracy
Chennai, Tamil Nadu India
September 7th, 2009
4:23 am

Quoting [my emphasis added] from Roger Cohen's valuable expose article on Farouk Hosny, Egypt's Culture Minister:

Questioned in Parliament [last year] about the presence of Israeli books in the Alexandria Library, the minister replied: “Let’s burn these books. If there are any, I will burn them myself before you.”

Did the devil make Hosny say it? Hosny blabbed himself into being unfit to head UNESCO. He has only himself to blame. Hosny is accountable for what he says. He said what he said, just last year.
Wowie, Hosny, what made you change your mind? Cheap ambition?

Now Hosny wants the plum, prestigious (hey I want it too, Farouk, doesn't mean I'll get it) UNESCO job, so he's disavowing his assertions before Egypt's Parliament, that is supposed to represent the PEOPLE of Egypt. Disavowal comes easy to a person from an intolerant, non-secular, religious and political culture in which blasphemy is a central tenet.
Worse, Hosny said it in Parliament, Farouk Hosny chose to lie to his own people, THE PEOPLE of Egypt. Should he then be given the opportunity to lie to all the peoples of the member-states that constitute UNESCO. Why?

This guy is even worse than Van Jones, Obama's green man, who rightly lost his job this week, even though he conveniently ate his incendiary words about the Bush administration's direct involvement in 9/11.

Farouk Hosny should get the Van Jones treatment and be booted out, not elevated. Hosny is a hater.

Hosny deserves to lose his present job as Egypt's C[Vulture] Minister, not promoted to head UNESCO. That would be an illustration of the Peter Principle in action.

Chithra KarunaKaran

Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice

http://EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/opinion/07iht-edcohen.html
An Egyptian for UNESCO
By ROGER COHEN

Talk of naming Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, to head Unesco raises issues of Arab prejudice and cultural bridge-building.
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Heim: Sociopath, Nazi War Criminal & the Challenge for Ethical Democracy

February 5th, 2009 4:38 am
Heim -- A consummate criminal, a genocider, a sociopath and psychopath who, most regrettably, was not brought to justice. Heim died peacefully in Cairo in 1992, a citizen of Egypt, but apparently his hiding place was only revealed recently.

This whole sequence of a life lived becomes a topic of concern in my empirical investigation of Self in Society in my "Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice" Blog.


It's ironic that the article mentions Heim planned to appeal to Kurt Waldheim -- yet another Nazi silent accomplice (see link below) who was honored with UN service and went unpunished.

Did Heim become less of a criminal because he became a Muslim? Yet another instance of religion being deployed for criminal, pathological uses, by individuals and the state.

Egypt aided and abetted this criminal by offering him political sanctuary and citizenship under an assumed,in this case, changed, name. So the Egyptian nation-state bears criminal responsibility and should pay reparation to the families of his victims. Unfortunately that may not happen until we make progress as ethical societies. That day may yet come. Heim's numerous victims who were rendered speechless in death, cry out for justice.
Justice is deathless. Ethical democracy to secure justice takes time and sincere, sustained effort.
The Arc of Justice........

Chithra KarunaKaran
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice
http://www.EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com

— EthicalDemocracy, New York, NY
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Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/world/africa/05nazi.html?pagewanted=1&hp
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by Jonathan Kandell,IHT article June 14, 2007 obit on Waldheim
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/14/europe/waldheim.php
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