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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, 1998

HDI Ranks High Human Development 1. Canada 2. Norway 3. United States 4. Australia 5. Iceland 6. Sweden 7. Belgium 8. Netherlands 9. Japan 10. United Kingdom 11. Finland 12. France 13. Switzerland 14. Germany 15. Denmark 16. Austria 17. Luxembourg 18. Ireland 19. Italy 20. New Zealand 21. Spain 22. Cyprus 23. Israel 24. Singapore 25. Greece 26. Hong kong, China (SAR) 27. Malta 28. Portugal 29. Slovenia 30. Barbados 31. Korea, Rep. of 32. Brunei Darussalam 33. Bahamas 34. Czech Republic 35. Argentina 36. Kuwait 37. Antigua and Barbuda 38. Chile 39. Uruguay 40. Slovakia

41. Bahrain 42. Qatar 43. Hungary 44. Poland 45. United Arab Emirates 46. Estonia Medium Human Development 47. Saint Kitts and Nevis 48. Costa Rica 49. Croatia 50. Trinidad and Tobago 51. Dominica 52. Lithuania 53. Seychelles 54. Grenada 55. Mexico 56. Cuba 57. Belarus 58. Belize 59. Panama 60. Bulgaria 61. Malaysia 62. Russian Federation 63. Latvia 64. Romania 65. Venezuela 66. Fiji 67. Suriname 68. Colombia 69. Macedonia, TFYR 70. Georgia 71. Mauritius 72. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 73. Kazakhstan 74. Brazil 75. Saudi Arabia 76. Thailand 77. Philippines 78. Ukraine 79. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 80. Peru 81. Paraguay

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Lebanon Jamaica Sri Lanka Turkey Oman Dominican Republic Saint Lucia Maldives Azerbaijan Ecuador Jordan Armenia Albania Samoa (Western) Guyana Iran, Islamic Rep. of Kyrgyzstan China Turkmenistan Tunisia Moldova, Rep. of South Africa El Salvador Cape Verde Uzbekistan Algeria Vietnam Indonesia Tajikistan Syrian Arab Republic Swaziland Honduras Bolivia Namibia Nicaragua Mongolia Vanuatu Egypt Guatemala Solomon Islands Botswana Gabon Morocco Myanmar Iraq Lesotho India

129. Ghana 130. Zimbabwe 131. Equatorial Guinea 132. Sao Tome and Principe 133. Papua New Guinea 134. Cameroon 135. Pakistan 136. Cambodia 137. Comoros 138. Kenya 139. Congo, The Republic of the Low Human Development 140. Lao Peoples Dem. Rep. 141. Madagascar 142. Bhutan 143. Sudan 144. Nepal 145. Togo 146. Bangladesh 147. Mauritania 148. Yemen 149. Djibouti 150. Haiti 151. Nigeria 152. Congo, Dem Rep. of the 153. Zambia 154. Cote dlvoire 155. Senegal 156. Tanzania, U. Rep. of 157. Benin 158. Uganda 159. Eritrea 160. Angola 161. Gambia 162. Guinea 163. Malawi 164. Rwanda 165. Mali 166. Central African Republic 167. Chad 168. Mozambique 169. Guinea Bissau 170. Burundi 171. Ethiopia 172. Burkina Faso 173. Niger 174. Sierra Leone

Source : Human Development Report, 2000, UNDP, Oxford University Press, Delhi