Angola ranks as 148 out of 187 countries on the Human Development index.

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The HDI Tree aggregates data in the Human Development Index graphically instead of numerically.

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At least as important as the human development index is the impact of all this on climate change.

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Indeed, the United Nations has developed a measure of quality of life called the Human Development Index ( UN HDI).

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Where there is widespread poverty, it is also much easier to find out higher level of illiteracy and a shorter life expectancy, to refer to the key elements of the Human Development Index.

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When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.

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The UN's 2006 Human Development Index placed Guatemala last in Spanish-speaking Latin America, below Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

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Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.

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On the UN Development Programme's human-development index, a general measure of wellbeing, Turkey comes below Russia, Albania and Romania.

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On the United Nations Development Programme's human-development index, Nepal comes 140th out of 177 countries.

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