Talk about health and welfare, nothing beats Norway, at least according to the size of the Human Development Index (HDI) through the Human Development Report 2015.
Quoted by CNN on Monday (12/21/2015), this is the 12th time the country was at the peak of the acquisition. Read directly in the report, Indonesia ranked 110th.
HDI measuring three things in a country, namely life expectancy, education and income / standard of living.
Norway gets high marks in all sizes and a figure of .944 overall. Life expectancy 81.6 years, while the gross national income (gross national income, GNI) reached US $ 64,992.
Five countries in the top five rankings are Australia (0.935), Switzerland (0.930), Denmark (0.923), and the Netherlands (0.922).
To note, the HDI covers 188 countries and regions. This year there is one additional countries assessed, South Sudan.
According to the UN, the measurement of HDI launched in 1990 is intended to affirm that the expansion of human choices should be the main criterion in assessing development results.
According to the report, "Economic growth is a means for the process, but not an end."
"HDI can be used to question national policy choices, to question why the two countries with the same per capita GNI can lead to differences in the results of human development."
The countries with the largest decline in HDI in 2015 was Libyan-which fell 27 rank-and Syria were down 25 ratings.
Five countries in the bottom of the rankings are Niger (0,348), Central African Republic (0.350), Eritrea (0.391), Chad (0392), and Burundi (0,400).
"The latest Human Development Report is a call immediately to resolve one of the world's biggest development challenges-namely providing jobs and livelihoods for all," said Helen Clark, Program Administrator for the United Nations Agency for Development Programme (UNDP) at the launch of the report.
He continued, "The world of work is changing much faster than before. The question is, whether the best policy responses to ensure human development benefits from these changes? "
