UN Ranks Nigeria Low On Development Index
Helen Clark, Administrator oat the United Nations Development Programme[/caption]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has ranked Nigeria 152 out of 188 in its latest Human Development Index (HDI).
The Human Development Report shows that Nigeria in 2015 had a HDI value of 0.527, an indication that in terms life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, the country performed low for that period.
The report showed that Nigeria’s HDI value between 2005 and 2015, increased from 0.466 to 0.527, indicating an increase of 13.1%.
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“Between 1990 and 2015, Nigeria’s life expectancy at birth increased by 7.0 years, mean years of schooling increased by 0.8 years and expected years of schooling increased by 3.3 years,” it said.
“Nigeria’s GNI per capita increased by about 98.4 percent between 1990 and 2015.”
Nigeria’s 2015 HDI of 0.527, however, places the country above the average of 0.497 for countries in the low human development group and above the average of 0.523 for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that followed Nigeria closely in the ranking were Congo (Democratic Republic of the) and Ethiopia, with HDIs of 176 and 174 respectively.
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UNDP’s Helen Clark said of the report that, “Human Development for Everyone, has a particular focus on those who have been left behind by development progress over the past 25 years, and how that exclusion can be overcome.
“Ensuring that development progress is broadly shared is not just the right thing to do; it is essential to building and sustaining the foundations for the peaceful, just, and inclusive societies envisaged in the 2030 Agenda,” Clark noted.
