Georgia maintains “high level of human development” in UN index
Georgia has maintained its place on the list of the countries with a “high level of human development” in the recent ranking of the United Nations. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgia has ranked 63rd among 191 countries in the United Nations' Human Development Index 2021-2022, maintaining its place on the list of the countries with a “high level of human development”.
Placed ahead of the majority of comparable states including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine and Moldova, Georgia is shown in the ranking released earlier this week to have the average life expectancy of 71.7 years, while the average individual annual income is estimated at $14,664.
Like Georgia, which has been moved back by two points compared to the ranking of 2020, the majority of the countries on the list have faced “serious problems” due to the coronavirus pandemic in the reported period, the UN said.
With more than 80 countries facing problems in paying their national debt during the pandemic, Switzerland sits at the top of this year’s index with a life expectancy of 84 years, an average of 16.5 years spent in education and median salary of $66,000.
At the other end of the scale is South Sudan, where life expectancy is at 55, people spend just 5.5 years in school on average and earn $768 a year.
Georgia ranks high in the region as a good place to do business despite challenges, the 2022 Investment Climate Statements, released by the United States Department of State on Thursday, said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday highlighted the Global Peace Index showed the country ranked second in the world with the ten-year progress in peacefulness, and credited this achievement with the “correct policy” of the former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and the ruling Georgian Dream team.
The overall human capital index score of Georgia is 0.57, which means that a child born in Georgia is expected to grow up to be only 57 percent as productive as they could be if they enjoyed a complete education and full health, says the latest update of the World Bank’s Human Capital Index (HCI), which measures pre-pandemic human capital outcomes around the world.
Georgia ranked 76 of 188 countries in the 2014 Human Development Index (HDI) 2015, released today by the UNDP.
The Georgian Government has developed a strategy with large investments in renewable energy, including solar and wind energies, and a plan to use “this cheap energy” and the “strategically important” location of the country, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Thursday at a panel discussion Eurasia's Middle Corridor: From Pathway to Highway within the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos.