VN getting closer to high HDI group

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Viet Nam has made good progresses in human development in which HDI stood at 1.36% in the 1990-2018 period. 

This is one of the key findings of the 2019 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) entitled “Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st Century.” 

UNDP Resident Representative Caitlin Wiesen announced that the 2019 Human Development Report disclosed the next generation of inequalities emerging around digital technology, education, and the climate crisis and proposes new ways of measuring and approaching inequalities. 

Under the report, Viet Nam’s 2018 HDI of 0.693 is above the average of 0.634 for countries in the Medium Human Development group. 

“Taking into account the Inequality Adjusted HDI, Viet Nam is eight places higher than its HDI ranking in 2018.”

Viet Nam’s loss of HDI value due to inequality in 2018 is 16.3%, its loss of income due to inequality is 18.1% and, its GINI coefficient – a statistical measure of economic inequality in a population – at 35.3 – are among the lowest in the East Asia and Pacific region.

However, Ms. Caitlin assessed that there were important fields for improvement. Viet Nam was placed at the bottom third of countries globally in terms of sex ratio at birth (1.12), violence against women by non-intimate partners (34.4%) and women with accounts in financial institutions or with mobile money service provider (30.4%). Its forest coverage as among the top third of countries globally, the country is among the bottom third of countries in terms of carbon emission per capita./.

By Kim Loan