Portugal on 29th place out of 177 countries in HDI (human development index)

Each year since 1990 the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme UNPF has published the human development index (HDI) which looks beyond GDP to a broader definition of well-being. The HDI provides a composite measure of three dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life (measured by life expectancy), being educated (measured by adult literacy and enrolment at the primary, secondary and tertiary level) and having a decent standard of living (measured by purchasing power parity, PPP, income).
The HDI for Portugal in the Human Development Report 2007/2008 is 0.897, which gives the country a rank of 29th out of 177 countries.
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View Human Development Report 2007/2008, Country Fact Sheet - Portugal (47,35 KB)
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2008-04-21