UN revises upward data on Mozambique, country ranked 9th least developed in the world – Read the full report here

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UN revises upward data on Mozambique, country ranked 9th least developed in the world – Read the full report here

1:34 CAT | 17 Sep 2018

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Mozambique is the ninth country with the lowest human development index (HDI) in the world (0,437), ranking 180th among 189 countries, according to a global report from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The 2017 table, presented on Friday in New York, uses new methodologies, giving the country a value of 0.437, significantly higher than the previous 0.418, but still leaving Mozambique in 180th place, well within the 38 countries in the “low development” category.

According to the authors of the report, Mozambique’s evaluation may not correspond entirely with reality, it having not collected and presented all the data requested by the UNDP in time.

The human development index is based on factors such as average life expectancy, which in Mozambique is 58.9 years, and years of schooling, which is on average only 3.5 years, one of the lowest figures in the world. Mozambique also shows striking gender inequalities, with the average 3.5 years of schooling split between 2.5 years for women and 4.6 years for men.

By comparison, Norway, the most developed country in the world, has an HDI of 0.953 and 12.6 years of effective schooling. In Mozambican primary schools, each teacher has an average of 55 students, while in Norway each teacher instructs just nine children.

The fertility rate indicates an average of five children per woman of childbearing age.

Mozambique is the fifth worst country for tuberculosis, which attacks around 140 people in every 100,000 in the world on average, but in Mozambique afflicts 551 people per 100,000.

With roughly 84.6% of workers in precarious employment, per capita gross domestic product, calculated according to purchasing power parity units, is $1,136.00. The world average is $15,439.00.

The country with the worst human development index in the world is Niger, with a score of just 0.354.