DESPITE NUMEROUS credit rating downgrades in the last five years, Barbados ranks above its Caribbean neighbours on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index.
The island is ranked No. 54 out of 188 countries with The Bahamas, ranked 58, and Antigua, at 63, next in line. Norway is considered to be the best country in which to live with its ranking at No 1 with the Central African Republic at the bottom.
The information was released by UNDP’s resident representative for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Stephen O’Malley, at a media conference at UN House, Hastings, Christ Church, yesterday.
The index takes into account life expectancy, the mean years of schooling (education) as well as gross national income per capita. Barbados scored .795 out of 1.0. Norway scored .949. (HLE)
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