THE Brazil climbed five positions and now occupies the 84th place among the 193 countries and territories in the Ranking of the Human Development Index (HDI), prepared by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) of the United Nations (UN), as released on Tuesday (6). Brazil’s HDI is 0.760.
The country occupies the 84th place between 193 Countries and Territories in the Ranking of the Human Development Index (HDI), released in the latest report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Brazilian index was in 0.786 .
The current report data refer to 2023. In the previous document, which analyzed the 2022 data, the Brazilian HDI was 0.778 being the 89th from the list.
IMPROVEMENT REASONS
Based on the United Nations Development Program Report (UND) report present in the sources, Brazil observed an improvement in its positioning in the Ranking of the Human Development Index (HDI).
The HDI is a compound measure that evaluates the average progress of a country in three fundamental dimensions of human development. These dimensions include having a long and healthy life, measured by life expectancy at birth; Access to knowledge, evaluated by the expected years and average years of schooling; and a decent standard of living, represented by the per capita gross national income.
For Brazil in 2023, the life expectancy at birth was 75.8 years the expected years of education were 15.7 years the average of years of schooling reached 8.8 years and the per capita gross national income was $ 17,749 .
In the classification of the organization, Brazil is considered a country of high human development group that encompasses countries with HDI between 0.700 and 0.799.
General data
The country with the best classification in 2023 was the Iceland with HDI of 0.972. Second place is shared by Norway (0.970) and by Switzerland (0.970), tied in the 2nd position. Following are the Denmark in 4th place (0.962), and the Germany (0.959) and Sweden (0.959) tied in 5th place.
Considering the nations of South America listed with rankings, Brazil occupies the 4th position . The country is behind Uruguay (48th place, 0.815), Peru (79th place, 0.794) and Colombia (83rd place, 0.788). On the other hand, Brazil is in front of the Venezuela (121st place, 0.709), for example, among the South American countries present in the ranking list.
Despite the growth of 0.008 Point in the value of HDI between 2022 (0.778) and 2023 (0.786), growth shows drop in data between the last decades. The average annual growth of Brazil’s HDI was 0.91% between 1990 and 2000, from 0.71% between 2000 and 2010, and now 0.42% between 2010 and 2023.
This content was originally published in Understand Brazil’s improvement in UN Human Development Ranking on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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