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Break down the United States state by state, compare each one with major European countries on human development, and something unexpected appears. The variation between American states turns out to be bigger than many realize.
Human Development Index: only three U.S. states beat Germany: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Minnesota. that's it. three out of fifty.
Love that Ireland has a higher HDI than the UK. Leaves and immediately becomes just a better place to live
"Countries with a high percentage of non-believers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth.
When nations are ranked according to a human-development index, which measures such factors as life expectancy, literacy rates, and educational attainment, the five highest-ranked countries - Norway, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands - all have high degrees of non-belief. Of the fifty countries at the bottom of the index, all are intensely religious. The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are the least religious.
These associations say nothing about whether atheism leads to positive social indicators or the other way around. But the idea that atheists are somehow less moral, honest, or trustworthy has been disproven by study after study."
-- Greg Graffin
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/latest-human-development-index-ranking (Note: report circa 2020, based on 2019 data):
Sweden's HDI Ranking
Since the beginning of the HDI (1990) to now, Sweden has gone up and up in its HDI rank. Between 1990 and 2023, Sweden's HDI value has changed from 0.818 in 1990, to 0.959, in 2023, which is a change of 17.2%. These changes are caused by increases in the indicators of the HDI, including life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, and mean years of schooling. Additionally, Sweden's gross national income per capita changed by about 60 percent between 1990 and 2023. As of now, Sweden ranks 5th globally in terms of HDI.
HDI Indicators
The HDI ranking isn't just arbitrary. It is made up of many indicators, which are split into three main categories.
The first category is about having a long and healthy life. Some of the things that contribute to this are sanitation measures, which are especially important during childhood. Another contributor to this section is safety. A lot of people are dying because of basic safety rules not being enforced.
Another category is education. If people are educated, they can get decent jobs that pay well, and help to decrease poverty. However, in some places, it costs lots of money to go to school, and if you can't go to school, it is not likely that you will get a good enough paying job to allow your children to go to school, and so the cycle continues.
The third category of indicators is a decent standard of living. Part of this is human rights that are being wrongfully considered as privileges. For example, if their citizens think that having clean water is a privilege, the government needs to work harder on their country to make clean water a right, and a normal thing to have.
What is HDI?
The Human Development Index is the UN's scale for ranking how developed countries are. Countries are ranked from 0 to 1, with 1 being the most developed, and 0 being the least developed.
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