East Timor falls in UN development rankings
AP - Wednesday, October 7
East Timor reached a new low in the U.N.'s annual measurement of human development, falling even further down the list of 182 countries measured for overall quality of life.
The desperately poor Southeast Asian nation of 1.1 million people fell to 162 on the list, compared to 150 in the 2007/2008 Human Development Index. It came in at 140 in 2005, the first year it was included.
The U.N. Development Program began tracking the index in 1990, weighing average life expectancy, income and literacy.
East Timor, which broke from Indonesia in 1999, has one of the highest rates of foreign assistance in the world at more than US$8,000 per person. Roughly US$8.7 billion has been spent by the United Nations, foreign donors and the Australian military over the past decade.
The 2009 Human Development Index ranking is based on data from 2007, a year after East Timor descended into chaos as police and army forces battled in the streets of the capital, Dili. About 15 percent of the population ended up in camps and the government was forced from power.
East Timor ranked 122 out of 135 countries for the income component. Overall, it fared better than just 19 African countries and Afghanistan. It came below Pakistan, Sudan and Congo.
Norway topped the list, above the United States at 13, while Niger was ranked last.
The desperately poor Southeast Asian nation of 1.1 million people fell to 162 on the list, compared to 150 in the 2007/2008 Human Development Index. It came in at 140 in 2005, the first year it was included.
The U.N. Development Program began tracking the index in 1990, weighing average life expectancy, income and literacy.
East Timor, which broke from Indonesia in 1999, has one of the highest rates of foreign assistance in the world at more than US$8,000 per person. Roughly US$8.7 billion has been spent by the United Nations, foreign donors and the Australian military over the past decade.
The 2009 Human Development Index ranking is based on data from 2007, a year after East Timor descended into chaos as police and army forces battled in the streets of the capital, Dili. About 15 percent of the population ended up in camps and the government was forced from power.
East Timor ranked 122 out of 135 countries for the income component. Overall, it fared better than just 19 African countries and Afghanistan. It came below Pakistan, Sudan and Congo.
Norway topped the list, above the United States at 13, while Niger was ranked last.
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