Pakistan slightly betters its human development ranking

Pakistan ranks 161st on a list of 191 countries on the UN Human Development Index, scoring 0.544 points, according to a report released on Wednesday.

This shows a slight improvement from 2023, when Pakistan was ranked 164th with 0.540 points, which was three rungs below its 2022 ranking. The 2022 report also noted that Pakistan’s HDI rank remained fixed at the 161st place globally from 2019 to 2021.

The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1.

Sri Lanka, ranked 73rd, is the top in South Asia with 0.782 points, followed by Bangladesh at 129th with 0.661 points, while India is 132nd with 0.633 points. Nepal is at 143rd, and Afghanistan is at the bottom in the region at 180th with 0.478 points, although it’s slightly above the 10 lowest.

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