Armenia ranked 85th in UNDP Human Development Report 2015

ArmInfo. Armenia was ranked 85th in the UN Human Development Report 2015 issued on December 14.  The country Human Development Index (HDI) is 0,733, according to UNDP website.  

The Human Development Index (HDI) was introduced in the first Human Development Report in 1990 as a composite measurement of development that challenged purely economic assessments of national progress. The HDI in the 2015 Report covers 188 countries and territories. South Sudan is a new addition (As was the case last year, the HDI could not be calculated for the People's Republic of Korea, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, Somalia, or Tuvalu.) HDI values and rankings calculated using the latest internationally comparable data for health, education and income.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, standards of living, and quality of life 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 underdeveloped country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life.

Armenia's index meets the high level of development, according to the HDP. The average life expectancy in Armenia in 74.7, the average number of years spent on education is 12.3. GDP per capital is 8,124 USD.

The highest index for human development is 0.944 in Norway, which is followed by Australia (0.935) and Switzerland. Russia and Belarus are the 50th with an index of 0.754. Azerbaijan is the 78th with an index of 0.75, and Turkey is the 72nd with an index of 0.761. Iran has occupied the 69th place in the ranking of "Human Development Report 2015" with an index of 0.766.