Jamaica falls three places in new HDI report
By Paul Burrowes
StatsPac
Jamaica's Human Development Index (HDI) has remained flat since 1990, with the latest report released on Monday, December 14 showing that the country has made marginally improvement but falling from 96 in 2013 to a ranking of 99 for 2014.
In 2013 Jamaica was at 0.715, but for 2014 moved up to 0.719 but the ranking fell as other countries have improved primarily Ecuador (88), St Lucia (89), and Colombia (97).
These were below Jamaica in 2013.
Norway, Australia and Switzerland remain the top three countries in the HDI, with the Netherlands dropping to fifth and Denmark moving from 10th to fourth.
Germany and Ireland are tied for six, the United States sinking three places to eighth, with Canada and New Zealand both in ninth.
The HDI report for 2014 has been very comprehensive, measuring health, education, income/composition of resources, inequality, gender, poverty; work, employment and vulnerability; human security, trade and financial flows, mobility and communication, environment sustainability, and demography.
Jamaica HDI for 2014
Life expectancy at birth: 75.7
Expected years of Schooling: 12.4
GNI per capita (2011): 7,414.6
Inequality-adjusted HDI: 0.593
Gender Development Index: 0.995
Multi-dimensional Poverty Index: 0.014
Employment to population ratio: 53.8
Homicide rate (per 100,000): 39.3
Exports and Imports (% of GDP): 83.4
Mobile phone subscriptions (per 100 people): 102
Carbon Dioxide Emission per capita (tonnes): 2.9
Population, total (millions): 2.8
Jamaica has one of the worst HDI in the Caribbean, behind Bahamas 55, Barbados 57, Antigua and Barbuda 58, Trinidad and Tobago 64, St Kitts and Nevis 77, St Lucia 89, and St Vincent and Grenadines 97.
As this report has just been released, more will come later; especially with how Jamaica fares against their Caribbean neighbours in gender development, employment, life expectancy, homicide rates, mobile phone subscriptions, GNI per capita, and exports and imports.
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