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How are the countries classified on the basis of human development index?

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Countries are classified into three groups on the basis of scores earned by them on the human development index . These are:


(i)High Human Development Countries: Countries who have a score of over 0.8 are under this group. According to the Human Development Report of 2005, this group includes 57 countries.

(ii)Medium Human Development Countries: Those countries who have the score between 0.5 upto 0.799 are under this group. There are 88 countries in this group.

(iii)Low Human Development Countries: The countries having the score below 0.5 are under this group. These are 32 countries.

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