One parents developed brings together a series of conditions that result in positive indicators for the life of the population.
Features
- High per capita income of the population
- High and broad level of education of the population
- High growth rates
- Very low levels of mortality
- Job offer in industry sectors
- Production for domestic supply and export
- High level of urbanization
- Equity of health levels
- Low income gap between richer and poorer
Human development Index
The main instrument to define whether a country is developed or not is the HDI (Development Index Human). This index has been surveyed by the UN (United Nations) since 1990, in 188 countries.
The HDI is evaluated by the average of three indicators of human development achieved by a country:
- Life: long and healthy. It is measured by life expectancy at birth.
- Education: measured by the literacy rate of adults and children in elementary school. On average, two-thirds of adults should be literate and one-third of children should be in school.
- Standard of living: is measured by the combination of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita with the PCC (Purchasing Power Parity). Both are valued in US Dollars.
The UN body that assesses the HDI is the UNDP (United Nations Development Program).
To assess the HDI, UNDP considers four developmental tracks that are:
- very high human development
- high human development
- average human development
- low human development
Top Ten Most Developed Countries List
The ten most developed countries in the world by 2015, according to UNDP criteria are:
| Parents | HDI |
|---|---|
| 1 - Norway | 0,944 |
| 2 - Australia | 0,935 |
| 3 - Switzerland | 0,930 |
| 4 - Denmark | 0,923 |
| 5 - Netherlands | 0,922 |
| 6 - Germany | 0,916 |
| 7 - Ireland | 0,916 |
| 8 - U.S | 0,915 |
| 9 - Canada | 0,913 |
| 10 - New Zealand | 0,913 |
Developing countries
The developing country classification considers nations with high levels of poverty and low HDI.
Until the early 1990s, the expression "underdeveloped country". This definition fell into disuse and the term "in development" came to be applied. The change occurred because there are countries that managed to raise the HDI.
Brazil is considered a developing country. The country occupies the 75th position in the UNDP ranking, with an HDI of 0.757.
Features
- Low average income of the population
- low life expectancy
- High levels of maternal and child mortality
- agrarian model is a priority
- Export of raw materials and not processed goods
- low educational levels
- low health levels
- high unemployment rates
- In general, former European colonies
- Problems in the social, economic and political structure
- High internal and external debts
- Do they live or have lived military dictatorships
Developing Countries with Worst HDIs
The ten countries with the worst HDIs, according to UNDP, are:
| Parents | HDI |
|---|---|
| 188 - Niger | 0,348 |
| 187 - Central African Republic | 0,350 |
| 186 - Eritrea | 0,391 |
| 185 - Chad | 0,392 |
| 184 - Burundi | 0,400 |
| 183 - Burkina Faso | 0,402 |
| 182 - Equatorial Guinea | 0,411 |
| 181 - Sierra Leone | 0,413 |
| 180 - Mozambique | 0,416 |
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- Life expectancy
- Per capita income
- world hunger
- Emerging countries
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- G20 - Group of Twenty
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