China ranks 101st in 2011 Human Development Report

China.org.cn, November 5, 2011

China seizes the 101st spot in terms of human development conditions, according to the 2011 Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on November 2.

Norway has topped the rank since 2006 and still ranks first in this year, followed by Australia and Holland. While the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and Burundi are at the bottom.

A somali boy drinks water at a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Somalis are driven to Ethiopia by hunger and war. [Photo: ?Sisay Zerihun/MSF]

2011 Human Development Report, entitled "Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All", argues that environmental sustainability can be most fairly and effectively achieved by addressing health, education, income, and gender disparities together with the need for global action on energy production and ecosystem protection.

UNDP has commissioned the editorially-independent Human Development Report each year since 1990, when its Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of health, education and income, first challenged purely economic measures of national achievement and called for consistent global tracking of progress in overall living standards.