Mexico Ranks 61 out of 187 Countries in UN Human Development Index Aristegui Noticias
go to original March 15, 2013

Mexico is in the 61st place in the ranking of 187 countries on the annual Human Development Index prepared by the United Nations Program for Development. Its score was .775 out of a possible 1.000, according to the report "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World", presented Thursday by Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator and President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Panama, Kuwait, Russia and Bielorussia obtained better results and surpassed Mexico in this measure. Norway, Australia and the United States top the ranking.  Canada is ranked number 10. ... Mexico received a "high" score in the same range as Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. Chile is ranked 40 and Argentina, 45, both considered by the Development Index to be "very high", with scores over .800.

The report analyzes more than forty developing countries that have made rapid progress in human development in recent years through sustained investment in education, health and other social services. Latin America and the Caribbean, with an average score of .741, is the second highest of the regions analyzed in the study, ...

According to the report, "the South, as a whole is driving global economic growth and social changes for the first time in centuries." It adds that with rising living standards in much of the south, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty around the world plummeted from 43% in 1990 to 22% in 2008.

Moreover, it says that Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Mexico now have greater daily circulation of social media than any other country except the United States.

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Posted by Reed Brundage at Mexico Voices

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