Turkey ranks 71st in UN Human Development Index

Turkey has scored 71 out of 188 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI) for 2016, according to the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) latest Human Development Report. 

The report said that Turkey's HDI value rose one place compared to 2015, putting it 71st with a score of 0.767, up from the previous year's score of 0.761.

Turkey shared 71st place with Venezuela.

While Norway topped the list with an HDI value of 0.949, the Central African Republic finished last with an HDI value of 0.352. 

Between 1990 and 2015, Turkey's HDI value rose from 0.576 to 0.767, which corresponds to an increase of 33.2 percent. During the same time period, Turkey's life expectancy at birth increased by 11.2 years, while the expected years of schooling and mean years of schooling also rose by 5.7 and 3.7 years, respectively. 

Turkey's gross national product (GNP) per capita rose by nearly 78.2 percent between 1990 and 2015.

The HDI value of Turkey in 2015 was above the average HDI value of the countries in the high human development category and European and Central Asian countries, which were calculated at 0.744 and 0.748, respectively.  

But when the difference in inequality in human development is subtracted, Turkey's HDI value registers a loss of 15.8 percent to fall to 0.641. 

The average loss by countries in the high human development category is 20 percent, while the ratio is 12.7 percent in Europe and Central Asia. 

Turkey's coefficient of human inequality, meanwhile, totaled 15.8 percent. 

According to the report's Gender Development Index (GDI), which included 161 countries, Turkey's GDI value was calculated at 0.908, with a score of 0.724 for women and 0.797 for men. 
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