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Human Development (1997-2000)

 

The Human Development Index (HDI) world average has progressed in 2000 compared to 1997: respectively 0.722 against 0.706.

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Human development indicators 2000
(données sur 173 pays)

Rank Country IDH 2000

Life expectancy at birth

(years)

Adult literacy rate

(% age 15 and above)

GDP per capita

(PPP1 - US$)
6 United States
 		0.939 77.0 99.0 34 142
31 Barbados 0.871 76.8 98.0 15 494
41 Bahamas 0.826 69.2 95.4 17 012
43 Costa Rica 0.820 76.4 95.6 8 650
44 Saint Kitts andNevis 0.814 70.0 97.8 12 510
50 Trinidad and Tobago 0.805 74.3 93.8 8 964
52 Antigua and Barbuda 0.800 73.9 86.6 10 541
54 Mexico 0.796 72.6 91.4 9 023
55 Cuba 0.795 76.0 96.7 -2
57 Panamá 0.787 74.0 91.9 6 000
58 Belize 0.784 74.0 93.2 5 606
61 Dominica 0.779 72.9 96.4 5 880
66 Saint Lucia 0.772 73.4 90.2 5 703
68 Colombia 0.772 71.2 91.7 6 248
69 Venezuela 0.770 72.9 92.6 5 794
74 Suriname 0.756 70.6 94.0 3 799
83 Grenada 0.747 65.3 94.4 7 580
86 Jamaica 0.742 75.3 86.9 3 639
91 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.733 69.6 88.9 5 555
94 Dominican Republic
 		0.727 67.1 83.6 6 033
103 Guyana 0.708 63.0 98.5 3 963
104 El Salvador 0.706 69.7 78.7 4 497
116 Honduras 0.638 65.7 74.6 2 453
118 Nicaragua 0.635 68.4 66.5 2 366
120 Guatemala 0.631 64.8 68.6 3 821
146 Haiti 0.471 52.6 49.8 1 467
Latin America and the Caribbean  0.767 70.0 88.3 7 234
World 0.722 66.9 - 7 446
1.  PPP: purchasing power parity. The base year for the PPP data is 1996; data for the reference year 2000 were extrapolated using relative price movements over time between each country and the United States, the base country.
2.  Pendeng the outcome of ongoing efforts to calculate GDP per capita (PPP) for Cuba, the Human Development Report Office estimate of the sub-regional weighted average for the Caribbean of $4 519 dollars (PPP) was used.     
Source: UNDP, Human Development Report 2002
Author: Monique Bégot
Translation:  : Louis Shurmer-Smith

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