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Fraser Institute proposes an alternative to
the UN's Human Development Index
| Fraser Institute proposes an alternative to the United Nations' Human
Development Index
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24 October 2001
VANCOUVER, BC -- Canada ranks sixteenth on the Fraser Institute's Measuring
Development: An Index of Human Progress,
released today.
This new publication provides a more complete view of the recent history and current state
of development throughout the world than does the United Nations' often-quoted Human
Development Index.
The Fraser Institute's Index of Human Progress ranks the United States first,
Switzerland second, Luxembourg third, Denmark fourth, and Japan fifth. Canada ranked
sixteenth in 1999 out of 128 countries. Canada's score on the Index of Human Progress
improved from 73.2 in 1975 to 94.0 in 1999 (a 28.5 percent increase); the score of the
United States improved from 81.4 in 1975 to 105.8 in 1999 (a 30.1 percent increase). ...
The United States was ranked second for 1975 through 1990 and first for 1995 and 1999.
Canada ranked sixth in 1975, tenth in 1980, eighth in 1985, seventh in 1990, eleventh in
1995 and sixteenth in 1999. ...
Full
story
Fraser Institute
PUBLIC POLICY SOURCES Number 36
Measuring Development
An Index of Human Progress
(PDF
doc ; 534 kB)
Table 8: The Index of Human Progress (Excerpts)
| |
1975 |
1980 |
1985 |
1990 |
1995 |
1999 |
Rank
(out of 128) |
Change
in Score |
% Change
in Score |
| United States |
81.4 |
86.9 |
92.4 |
98.3 |
101.9 |
105.8 |
1 |
24.5 |
30.1 |
| Switzerland |
86.0 |
90.8 |
93.6 |
98.3 |
100.0 |
105.5 |
2 |
19.5 |
22.6 |
| Denmark |
81.2 |
85.9 |
89.3 |
92.5 |
96.8 |
103.9 |
4 |
22.7 |
28.0 |
| Japan |
76.2 |
84.8 |
89.4 |
96.2 |
100.4 |
103.7 |
5 |
27.5 |
36.1 |
| Australia |
70.1 |
74.2 |
78.4 |
82.6 |
92.9 |
97.6 |
8 |
27.5 |
39.3 |
| Sweden |
80.2 |
84.2 |
86.7 |
89.4 |
93.9 |
97.2 |
10 |
17.0 |
21.2 |
| Germany |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
91.1 |
96.2 |
12 |
5.1 |
5.6 |
| France |
68.9 |
76.0 |
81.1 |
87.6 |
92.0 |
95.1 |
13 |
26.3 |
38.1 |
| Belgium |
70.7 |
75.6 |
78.5 |
84.0 |
90.3 |
94.6 |
14 |
23.9 |
33.9 |
| United Kingdom |
68.4 |
72.4 |
75.0 |
80.7 |
90.5 |
94.0 |
15 |
25.6 |
37.4 |
| Canada |
73.2 |
76.5 |
83.2 |
89.3 |
91.6 |
94.0 |
16 |
20.8 |
28.5 |
| New Zealand |
70.6 |
72.3 |
74.7 |
77.3 |
82.6 |
85.2 |
19 |
14.6 |
20.6 |
| Italy |
63.6 |
68.6 |
71.2 |
76.5 |
79.8 |
83.3 |
20 |
19.7 |
30.9 |
| Singapore |
52.1 |
59.4 |
64.3 |
70.4 |
77.1 |
81.7 |
21 |
29.6 |
56.8 |
| Spain |
59.4 |
63.6 |
66.4 |
71.9 |
76.8 |
80.4 |
22 |
21.0 |
35.3 |
| Greece |
57.1 |
60.7 |
64.3 |
67.3 |
73.4 |
76.6 |
23 |
19.5 |
34.1 |
| Israel |
58.8 |
62.5 |
66.6 |
69.3 |
73.5 |
76.4 |
24 |
17.7 |
30.0 |
| Russian Fed. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
59.4 |
56.0 |
58.4 |
47 |
(1.0) |
(1.7) |
| Mexico |
41.5 |
45.8 |
48.4 |
49.5 |
52.0 |
54.8 |
59 |
13.3 |
32.1 |
| Saudi Arabia |
33.4 |
41.6 |
44.4 |
48.0 |
51.4 |
53.8 |
64 |
20.4 |
61.0 |
| China |
36.7 |
38.2 |
39.3 |
43.4 |
47.8 |
51.7 |
66 |
15.0 |
41.0 |
| India |
21.8 |
24.3 |
28.0 |
31.4 |
34.1 |
35.8 |
93 |
14.1 |
64.5 |
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Posted 2001 10 29
Updates:
2003 07 05 (updated links to Fraser Institute's documents cited on this page) |
