Top 10 Most Developed African countries by Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary indicator of average performance in three important areas of human development: knowledge and a livable level of living. It is a common way to gauge wellbeing. It is used to determine if a nation is developed, developing, or undeveloped as well as to assess how economic policies affect people’s quality of life.
Based on their HDI, nations are divided into four main categories: extremely high, high, medium, and poor human development. Only Mauritius is currently an African nation with a very high level of human development.
The Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme, which was published on December 15 of 2020 and is based on data gathered in 2019, includes the most recent Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Africa.
Except for Somalia, almost all of the African UN members are included in the report. Due to their exclusion from the most recent study, Western Sahara and a number of dependent territories controlled by non-African states are also not ranked.
According to the most recent UN Human Development Index survey, the ten most developed African nations are shown below. Be aware that when compared to the global average, Most Developed African countries perform poorly. For instance, Mauritius, the most developed nation in Africa, came in at number 66 out of 189.
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Mauritius: The HDI score for this island nation is 0.804.
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Seychelles: Another island nation in Africa, this one with a high HDI score of 0..796.
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Algeria: This Northern African country has an HDI of 0.748.
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Tunisia: Tunisia has an HDI ranking of 0.740.
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Botswana: Botswana is the fifth-most developed nation in Africa. It is ranked 0.735 on the HDI scale.
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Libya: Libya’s HDI stands at 0.724, according to UN’s latest HDI ranking.
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South Africa: With an HDI score of 0.709, this nation occupies the seventh-most developed nation in Africa.
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Egypt: Egypt comes in at 8th position with an HDI ranking of 0.707.
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Gabon: In the 9th position, we have Gabon with an HDI ranking of 0.703.
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Morocco: Lastly, Morocco has an HDI ranking of 0.686.
