WHICH COUNTRIES ARE DOING BEST?

Norway comes top. The village of Reine in Lofoten, Norway by Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia.

1. Which country is more developed - The USA or Ireland?

Norway comes top in the UN's Human Development Index.

Australia comes second.

Ireland comes seventh.

The UK comes 28th.

Libya is the top country in Africa, followed by Mauritius and Tunisia.


Sweden comes third in the IHDI. Sweden by Jom Manilat

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) measures a country’s development performance based on three main indicators, economics, health and education.

The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) accounts for inequalities in the distribution of those indicators across the population.

(Income Inequality Lowers U.S. Rank in U.N. Human Development Index /UK worse than Czech Republic as place to live‎)

In the IHDI:

The USA ranks 23rd.

The UK ranks 24th.

Israel ranks 22nd.

Canada ranks 16th.


Australia comes 2nd in IHDI. Western Australia - By squid697

In the IHDI:

Norway ranks 1st.

Australia ranks 2nd.

Sweden ranks 3rd.

Ireland ranks 7th.

Indonesia

2. After its People-Power revolution in 1998, how is Indonesia doing in terms of the HDI?

Indonesia is slipping.

In 2010 Indonesia came 108th.

In 2011, Indonesia came 124th, behind the Philippines.

Indonesians have to pay for schooling.

Indonesians spend only 5.8 years at school on average.

Indonesians have to pay for medical care.

Indonesian children die for lack of medicine.

The CIA's People-Power revolt of 1998 has not helped the ordinary Indonesians.

But, the rich elite are doing well, and grabbing more land from the poor.

3. How will the CIA's Arab Spring affect Libya, Tunisia and Egypt?

We can expect those countries to sink in terms of human development.