■ 🕑 2. Re: HDI
The United Nations Development Programme has not given the DPRK an HDI
since the late 1990s. In 1995, the United Nations Development
Programme gave the DPRK a Human
Development Index score of 0.766.[1] A 2008 United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific paper estimated the Human Development
index of the DPRK at 0.733, a decrease of 3.3%. [2] The other three
countries have recent HDI scores, but they may be inaccurate as all
three countries are engaged in some form of civil war. Somalia is ranked at
the bottom in the 2022 HDI, with a score of 0.380. 2022 is the first year
that Somalia was included in the HDI. [3] Syria is next with a score of
0.557 in the 2022 HDI, and has mostly been on the decline since the start
of the Syrian civil war in 2011. [4] Myanmar is ranked higher with an HDI
score of 0.608. [5]
Works Cited
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190309140606if_/http://hdr.undp.org/sites/def
ault/files/reports/259/hdr_1998_en_complete_nostats.pdf#page=33
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20111005100501if_/http://www.unescap.org/pdd/pu
blications/workingpaper/wp_09_02.pdf#page=42
[3] https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/specific-country-data#/countries/SOM
[4] https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/specific-country-data#/countries/SYR
[5] https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/specific-country-data#/countries/MMR