Agency Report
— Jul 26, 2014
While a number of African countries have recently made
some progress in improving the quality of life of their people, nearly as many
are backsliding, according to the latest United Nations statistics. And across
the board, Africa continues to lag far behind the rest of the world in its
levels of human development.
These are the broad conclusions that can be drawn from
the snapshot provided by comparing country rankings for 2013 to those for the
previous year, as published in the 2014 Human Development Index. The index, a
project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), measures quality of life by examining
achievements in income, health and education.
The
index shows that 11 African countries improved their rankings in 2013 over
2012, while the rankings of eight declined. Nevertheless, only five African
countries appear in the “high human development” category, while 35 of the 43
countries whose development is categorised as “low” are African.
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