UN Human Development Index 2007

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Latest UN HDI report released this week. The HDI considers life expectancy; education; literacy and GDP in its compilation.

Top 20 Ranking
1. Iceland 0.968
2. Norway 0.968
3. Australia 0.962
4. Canada 0.961
5. Ireland 0.959
6. Sweden 0.956
7. Switzerland 0.955
8. Japan 0.953
9. Netherlands 0.953
10. France 0.952
11.  Finland 0.952
12. United States 0.951 
13. Spain 0.949
14. Denmark 0.949 
15. Austria 0.948 
16. United Kingdom 0.946 
17. Belgium 0.946 
18. Luxembourg 0.944 
19. New Zealand 0.943 
20. Italy 0.941

[Tender Branson]

This report is lame. More indicators have to be factored in such as the Gini-Index, Infant-Mortality, Homicide Rates, Political Stability, Women in Parliament, Equal Pay Indicators for Women, People in Employment, People in Prison, Military Spending, Suicide Rates, Unemployment rates, CO2-Emissions per capita, Indicators of Infrastructure, Research and Development Expenditures, Development Aid etc.

IMO, the Global Peace Index gives a better overall picture and combined with some indicators I mentioned above it would probably be even better ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

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This report is lame. More indicators have to be factored in such as the Gini-Index, Infant-Mortality, Homicide Rates, Political Stability, Women in Parliament, Equal Pay Indicators for Women, People in Employment, People in Prison, Military Spending, Suicide Rates, Unemployment rates, CO2-Emissions per capita, Indicators of Infrastructure, Research and Development Expenditures, Development Aid etc.

IMO, the Global Peace Index gives a better overall picture and combined with some indicators I mentioned above it would probably be even better ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

Wow, look at some of the countries that the US lost to there:

Syria, Kenya, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Cambodia, Cuba.

96/121 ranked is pretty horrible. Iraq managed to get last place.