Slovenia places 26th in this year's human development report of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), up one place over 2004. Moreover, it was placed among the countries with the highest human development rate.
Slovenia took 27th place last year, and 29th in 1995. With this year's 26th, it is the best developed EU newcomers; the closest ones are Cyprus at 29th, the Czech Republic (31) and Malta (32).
According to the UNDP report, Norway tops the list of the 177 countries included in the report, followed by Iceland, Australia, Luxembourg and Canada. At the bottom of the list are Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Niger.
In addition to the development rate, the UNDP considers life expectancy, literacy rate, poverty, unemployment, education, GDP, number of doctors, medication accessibility, number of people infected with HIV, malaria or tuberculosis, as well as maternal mortality rate.
One of the criteria was also the human development rate, according to which Slovenia is placed among the 57 countries with the highest development rate together with Australia, the US, Japan, Croatia, Bulgaria, and the new EU members.
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