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Nigeria ranked 152 out of 188 in development index – UN

Nigeria’s Human Development Index (HDI) value for 2015 is 0.527- which put the country in the low human development category, positioning it at 152 out of 188 countries and territories.

Between 2005 and 2015, Nigeria’s HDI value increased from 0.466 to 0.527, an increase of 13.1 percent. The report released by the United Nations Development Programme has said yesterday.

“Between 1990 and 2015, Nigeria’s life expectancy at birth increased by 7.0 years, mean years of schooling increased by 0.8 years and expected years of schooling increased by 3.3 years. Nigeria’s GNI per capita increased by about 98.4 percent between 1990 and 2015.”

According to the report, Nigeria’s 2015 HDI of 0.527 is above the average of 0.497 for countries in the low human development group and above the average of 0.523 for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. From Sub-Saharan Africa, countries which are close to Nigeria in 2015 HDI rank and to some extent in population size are Congo (Democratic Republic of the) and Ethiopia, which have HDIs ranked 176 and 174 respectively.

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The HDI is an average measure of basic human development achievements in a country. Like all averages, the HDI masks inequality in the distribution of human development across the population at the country level.

Administrator of the UNDP, Helen Clark said  “Human Development for Everyone”, has a particular focus on those who have been left behind by development progress over the past 25 years, and how that exclusion can be overcome. Ensuring that development progress is broadly shared is not just the right thing to do; it is essential to building and sustaining the foundations for the peaceful, just, and inclusive societies envisaged in the 2030 Agenda.

 

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