Oman ranked 59th in Human Development Index

Oman ranked 59th in Human Development Index

Oman is ranked 59th in the latest Human Development Index released last week by the United Nations Development Programme.Muscat – Oman is ranked 59th in the latest Human Development Index released last week by the United Nations Development Programme.

The Human Development Report 2023/24, titled Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarised world, shows the rebound in the global Human Development Index (HDI) – a summary measure reflecting a country’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, education and life expectancy – has been partial, incomplete and unequal.

The sultanate is classified with a group of countries with ‘Very high human development’. The value of Oman’s HDI is 0.819, while life expectancy at birth is 73.9 years, expected years of schooling is 13, mean years of schooling is 11.9 and GNI per capita is US$32,967 – the components that make HDI.

In the GCC, UAE is the top ranked country at 17th, followed by Bahrain at 34th, Saudi Arabia and Qatar at 40th, and Kuwait at 49th.

The top-ranked countries in the index are Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands. The bottom five are Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Somalia.

‘The HDI is projected