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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