Comparison of Iran Human Development Index (HDI) with the Region Selected Countries during 2010 and 2011

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has changed the calculation methodology of human development index in 2010.This leads to a change in the position of some countries in the world ranking. These changes include: calculation of expected years of schooling and mean years of schooling rather than adult literacy rates and enrollment rates at different levels of education in the education index, calculation of gross national income (GNI) per capita rather than gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in income index, but calculation of expected years of schooling similar to the previous report, with a slight change but the calculation of this indicator in 2011 is the same as in 2010. In fact, this paper seeks to answer this question that how is Iran situation in this index in during 2010 and 2011. The findings show that the rank of Iran human development index has fallen one rank in the neighbor countries and 18 rank in the world and has declined from 70 rank in 2010 to 88 rank in 2011. The results indicate that although Iran's human development index has improved in 2011 compared to 2010, but its rank has declined.

Human Development, life expectancy, GDP per capita, Education Index