[News] UNDP: Chile maintains first place in the Human Development Index in the region, but does not advance in gender equality

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The latest global report 2020, ranked the country 43rd out of 189 nations. Meanwhile, the nation ranks 62nd globally in the Gender Development Index.

 

 

The office of the world human development report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched its 30th Global Human Development Report 2020 on December 15, where Chile maintains the first place in the Human Development Index (HDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean, but there is no progress in gender equality.

 

This edition, titled "The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene", focuses on the relationship between human development and planetary sustainability. In addition, the annual report introduces for the first time the Human Development Index Adjusted to Planetary Pressures, (IDHP), which makes explicit human pressures on the planet and is also a tool to guide the transformations required in the face of the sustainability crisis.

 

Chile leads the HDI in Latin America

The report establishes that the Human Development Index (HDI) for Chile in 2019 was 0.851 (with a scale of zero to one) -in 2018 it was 0.847- a situation that leaves it in 43rd place in the world qualification ranking, among 189 nations. With this rating, the country remains in the category of "very high" human development countries and places it at the head of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is also possible to find three other Latin American nations: Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

 

In global terms, the country shares 43rd place with Croatia, the same position it occupied in 2018. The three countries with the greatest human development in the world are Norway, Ireland and Switzerland. In addition, Chile is 16 places higher in the HDI ranking than in the Gross National Income ranking, reflecting the good results of the country in health and education relative to its income level. There are three dimensions that are measured and that allow Chile to be the leader in the region: health, education and income. Thus, it is obtained that between 1990 and 2019 life expectancy at birth grew by 6.7 years (73.5 to 80.2), the average years of education by 2.5 years (8.1 to 10.6); the expected years of schooling grew by 3.5 years (12.9 to 16.4) and gross national product increased by 155% (9,130 to 23,261 PPP USD $ 2017).

 

Highest income inequality, followed by education and health

In the Human Development Index adjusted for Inequality, (IDHD), which "accounts for the loss of human development due to inequalities," according to the report, Chile falls from 0.851 to 0.709, representing a loss of 16.7% in the measure. The greatest loss is produced by income inequality, then in education and then in health, which finally implies that the country drops 11 places in the world ranking due to inequality, to 54th place. In comparative terms, the loss The average in countries with a very high HDI is 10.9% and in Latin America and the Caribbean it is 22.2%. Argentina lost 13.7% and Peru 19.2%.