VIETNAM Climbs into UN High Human Development Group

VietnamExpress-Dec 17

Vietnam has joined the high human development group based on the U.N.’s Human Development Index, and risen one spot to 117th out of 189 economies in the index. Its 2019 HDI score rose to 0.704, which put it in the group. To make the group countries need a score of 0.700-0.799. Vietnam’s score has risen by 45 percent in the past 30 years, according to a report released this week by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), ranking economies based on life expectancy, education, per capita income, gender gap, and poverty. However, in Southeast Asia, it trails Singapore (11th), Brunei (47th), Malaysia (62nd), Thailand (79th), and Indonesia and the Philippines (107th).

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