Visualization of Human Development Index - Interactive Maps & Graphs (data from 2009 UNDP report)

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This is a brief visual exploration of the Human Development Index (HDI) from the Human Development Report 2009 through interactive maps and graphs. This video looks at changes over time from a global perspective and through close-ups of Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. It starts with a focus on a few countries showing significant positive change in HDI over time as well as high HDI countries USA and Norway for comparison. (note: the data is from 2007, the source is the UNDP report released on 5 October 2009).

Report from UNDP: http://hdr.undp.org/

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• Visualization
• Human
• Development
• Index
• HDI
• 2007
• 2009
• UNDP
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• Life
• Expectancy
• Literacy
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• Attainment
• GDP
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• Capita
• world
• countries
• Africa
• Asia
• Latin
• America
• USA
• China
• India
• Nepal
• Chile
• Norway
• Iran
• Singapore

[hundredand4]

Why are all the Euros pissed USA is among the highest rated?

[TheZider]

norway is best...=) norge er best=) norge er klart best i alt=) hurra

[hundredand4]

@UltimateOwnz I didn't say it was the highest, just one of the highest.

[UltimateOwnz]

@StellandBlood Its true. Best country to live in is Sweden, but Australia, Norway, NL and Canada have better standards of living than USA. Norway sucks its boring as hell, but we'll see how great they are when they run out of oil haha.

[StellandBlood]

"These are just two examples of manipulated statistics, but there are many others. In what appears to be an unending attempt to control public perception.""

[StellandBlood]

"The government knows that the unemployment rate is a statistic with great implications. Therefore multiple administrations have adjusted the number from its original calculation to make it look as low as possible.

Inflation controls the cost of living increases that are paid to employees by both the government and private companies,to minimize the cost of increases, institutional power (both public and private) has an incentive to use a calculation method that minimizes the inflation rate."

[StellandBlood]

"Data released by the government has been so adjusted for political purposes that it is no longer a reflection of what is happening in the economy. These are the descriptive statistics that are quoted in news programs that we collectively used to measure the health of the economy and even the fairness of the economy, and they have been helplessly jerry-rigged. A few examples are listed below:"

[StellandBlood]

Doesn´t one wonders why the IMF,World Bank,UN,(World Trade Center) all have their main headquaters in the USA..........its too obvious..........

[StellandBlood]

@UltimateOwnz

USA 4th,above Sweden and Canada HAHAHA.........ridiculous,all USA economic stats are faked,build over by governemental bribes.

[UltimateOwnz]

@hundredand4 Highest? Real list: 1st Norway 2nd Australia 3rd NL 4th USA 5th Canada 6th New Zealand 7th Sweden 8th Germany Search up on Wikipedia. Its even updated.

[multiYellowHorse]

@archiebunkerville not Sweden!