Brunei
Darussalam ranked the 33rd best country to live in out of 187 countries and
territories surveyed for human development, according to an annual report
prepared by the United Nations Development Programme.
The Sultanate's ranking in the human development
index (HDI), the report stated, was "in the very high human development
category", though figures for the country's inequality-adjusted HDI,
gender inequality index (GII) and multidimensional poverty index (MPI) were
unavailable "due to a lack of relevant data".
The inequality-adjusted HDI measures the
inequality in the three areas surveyed for the HDI: life expectancy, education
levels and economic prosperity.
The GII and MPI were introduced into the
report last year, when only 169 countries were surveyed.
Last year's report saw Brunei at 37 out of
169, though the report warns readers that comparisons of rankings from one
report to another is "misleading" due to changes in underlying data
and methods of surveying, as well as differences in the number of countries
surveyed.
However, the report also read that, based on
data made available in 2011 and the methods used, Brunei's HDI for 2010 was
33rd out of 187, which remains unchanged.
The report showed that between 1980 and 2011,
Brunei's HDI value increased from 0.750 to 0.838, up12.0 per cent or an average
annual hike of about 0.4 per cent.
During the same 31-year period, it was
recorded that Brunei's gross national income (GNI) per capita decreased by
about 47.0 per cent. Brunei's life expectancy at birth increased by 7.4 years,
mean years of schooling increased by 2.5 years and expected years of schooling
increased by 3.1 years.
For sustainability, Brunei measured in minus
1.8 per cent for adjusted net savings of GNI.
Adam Radhi
The Brunei Times
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