Human Development Index - 2009 Report

2009 Report

The 2009 Human Development Report by UNDP was released on October 5, 2009, and covers the period up to 2007. It was titled "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development". The top countries by HDI were grouped in a new category called "Very High Human Development". The report refers to these countries as developed countries. They are:

  1. Norway 0.971 ( 1)
  2. Australia 0.970 ( 2)
  3. Iceland 0.969 ( 2)
  4. Canada 0.966 ( 1)
  5. Ireland 0.965
  6. Netherlands 0.964
  7. Sweden 0.963
  8. France 0.961 ( 3)
  9. Switzerland 0.960 ( 1)
  10. Japan 0.960 ( 2)
  11. Luxembourg 0.960 ( 2)
  12. Finland 0.959
  13. United States 0.956 ( 2)
  1. Austria 0.955
  2. Spain 0.955 ( 1)
  3. Denmark 0.955 ( 2)
  4. Belgium 0.953
  5. Italy 0.951 ( 1)
  6. Liechtenstein 0.951 ( 1)
  7. New Zealand 0.950
  8. United Kingdom 0.947
  9. Germany 0.947
  10. Singapore 0.944 ( 1)
  11. Hong Kong 0.944 ( 1)
  12. Greece 0.942
  13. South Korea 0.937
  1. Israel 0.935 ( 1)
  2. Andorra 0.934 ( 1)
  3. Slovenia 0.929
  4. Brunei 0.920
  5. Kuwait 0.916
  6. Cyprus 0.914
  7. Qatar 0.910 ( 1)
  8. Portugal 0.909 ( 1)
  9. United Arab Emirates 0.903 ( 2)
  10. Czech Republic 0.903
  11. Libya 0.903 ( 2)
  12. Malta 0.902 ( 3)

Read more about this topic:  Human Development Index

Famous quotes containing the word report:

    “Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)