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UN Ranks Burma among 3 Least Developed Asian Nations
The average Burmese in 2012 had an average life expectancy at birth of 65.7 years, 3.9 years of schooling and an annual gross per capita income of US $1,817. (Photo: The Irrawaddy)
A UN report released on Friday ranks Burma 149th on a global human development index that compares 185 nations on the basis of income, education and health indicators, placing it among the three least developed Asian countries.
The country’s ranking in the UN Development Program’s Human Development Index 2013 is unchanged from last year. In Asia, only Papua New Guinea, 156, and Nepal, 157, ranked lower than Burma, which was surpassed by neighbors Bangladesh, 146, Laos, 138, and Thailand, at place 103. North Korea was not included in the UN index.
Burma was placed in a global group of 44 countries with “low human development,” according the report, which uses indicators such as national income per capita, life expectancy and years of schooling to compare nations. It also looks at underlying social conditions such as income and gender inequality.
The most developed country in the world, according to the UN, is Norway, while Niger is the least developed nation.
Although Burma’s overall ranking remains unchanged it is among a group of poor countries that have recorded a relatively fast improvement in development over the past decade, according to the UN report.
It said Burma, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste and 11 African countries “recorded impressive [human development index] gains of more than 2 percent annually since 2000.”
It provided no details on how Burma has achieved these advances. The impoverished Southeast Asian country has only just begun to emerge from decades of isolation under military rule.
The report said the Burmese in 2012 had an average life expectancy at birth of 65.7 years, on average 3.9 years of schooling and an annual gross per capita income of US $1,817.
By comparison, citizens in the whole East Asia and the Pacific region have an average life expectancy of 72.2 years, 7.2 years of education and an annual income of $6,874.
The UN said East Asia and the Pacific region is one the fastest developing in the world and “China, Indonesia, Thailand and many other nations are helping drive a historic shift in global dynamics, with hundreds of millions of people lifted from poverty.”
By 2030 the region “will be home to about two-thirds of the new global middle class, with billions of people becoming increasingly educated, socially engaged and internationally connected, though at significantly lower income levels than their counterparts in the middle class of the industrialized North,” the report projects.
The UN said, however, that these regional development advances are at risk from ageing populations, environmental degradation, political pressures and income inequality.
“[F]ailure to build accountable and responsive political structures may also cause unrest and civil strife regionally and globally if economic opportunity fails to keep pace with educational advancement,” it warns.
Simple really.
Using the same line of “PUT DOWNS” drum up the LOWLY state of Burma or so it appears and then generously “offer” “development aid” and debt forfeiture like the most altruistic international communities (same capitalists in different dress- rather reminding one of the Sit-tut government) and while people feel relief and gratitude, go in for the kill.
The “elites” of Burma are already ASHAMED of being belonging to the “POOREST” state or more so poorer than the neighbors who they for weird reason they look down upon so much so that they will now sell out not only Latpadaung Taungs but their own mothers not to be at the bottom of any list however the list is complied by any group of idiots.
Appeal to Mawha. The Burmese are full of it. and growing.
A few declarations like this and they will send their sisters to Thailand (correction bring in the tourists to Burma) to make money to be at the TOP of the list.
Such is vanity. The cause of all destruction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqYankgih54
Shocking shame, Still military is first, Right of the ethnic groups neglected. Peace agreements dishonored.
Don’t worry. We are just beginning of new Burma. Burmese can run faster than neighbor and we will catch them up in next decade. We need to work hard and study hard for modern technology. First, we need to build peaceful and stability Nation. Unity is most important thing for among the Burmese ethnics. Burma has been wasting 60 years under dictatorship Ne Win and War Criminal Than Shwe. Otherwise, we can be in top 50 nations.
Burmese peoples must stop smoking. My Grandmother, father and cousin were moderate smoker of Sheroot and Cigarette. They all died before 60 years old of age from lung Cancer. Also Burmese peoples need to stop chewing Betel Nut and Betel leaves as well. Both habits can be cause Lung Cancer, Asthma, Respiratory disease, Kidney Stone, Pancreatic Cancer, Hypertension, Gum disease and other diseases. Peoples should be kicking off bad habit and they should adopt healthy living style in 21st century.
Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew called Burma’s military leaders ”dense” and ”stupid”. Lee was quoted as saying he had given up on the generals a decade ago, calling them ”dense” and ”stupid” people who had ”mismanaged” Burma’s natural resources.
No mining, no dam building, no timber extraction, and no, no, no, no for many many things but just to preserve our country as a museum. Yes we will be at the bottom of the table of LDC. God save our country.
You want to get filthy RICH, according the the teaching of Buddha obviously, work yourself. Why destroy other people’s property and lives and go into a tantrum like a split child for not being able to screw up the good things in the country for catching up with decadence.
How pathetic can people get! Like a child wanting to sell out grandmother’s silvers for ice cream..
Hopefully, after communal cruelty, people can enjoy the destroyed lives of generations of Latpadaung Villagers in this live and as long as the than-tha-ya becoming citizens of bestest/ richest/ goodest/ most popular and admired country in Asia.Stuff the villagers. Ignorant , idiots. No Oxford Third Class honours. No foreign travels., And they dare to want to live, the cheek of it!
Ending is better than mending!
how come Burma’s HDI is lower than that of Afganistan?
Because the list is elastic!
See the comments above. The Little people gets reeling for a stupid ranking crap. (KNowing the trick there will be more craps coming now, until they get firm grip on the neck of the land of Burma and then they would say the “Ranking has miraculously improved because of the association with U, the raping, looting capitalists (Whoever writes this must be a communits. right?), Like Aung San Suu Kyi’s prizes or those “Bwe” and “Professorships” given out by near illiterate Khin Nyunt to monks and people ( who stepped over each other to grab them), they are free and effective upon the idiots, the case in point)
Incidentally, Harry Potter novels started out with school house ranking but JK Rowlings dropped those from book 3 ( out of 7) o so as they are so, so, so, so childish, pathetic and are total jokes.
But these Asians, you see, they live their whole lives on how other people might see them. Losing Face Crap. Then once they think they get this and that status they look down upon others and treat them like filth. Dear mahathir’s Asian Way.
So, so easy to predict and manipulate like those hungry fish in the Pagoda ponds, it is almost boring!
People in Kyaung Gone spread rumor that Ne Win reincarnated as a calf to the family who owns ten acres of paddy field. It means Ne Win will plow the paddy field every year until he gets slaughtered. Maybe, Than Shwe will reincarnate into the life of a water-buffalo too to plow for us.