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