Belarus improves its positions on HDI education and incomes indexes

        Belarus has improved its positions on education and income indexes of the UNDP National Human Development Report “Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience”, the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reports. "Belarus is ranked 53rd among 187 countries. The country has retained the status of a country with high level of development and tops the CIS countries on this index. Since 2013 Belarus has improved such positions on the education index and the gross national income at purchasing power parity per capita index,” informed the Foreign Minsitry.
       For the first time the report incorporated the data on gender inequality index. Belarus is 28th and is ahead of a number of western countries such as the United Kingdom, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, the United States, Croatia and Estonia. Belarus has also a good record on the gender development index (32nd) and is ranked higher than a number of countries with very high human development index.