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Drop in Human Development
For the fifth consecutive year,
Costa Rica lost ground in the
Human Development Index, as a
result of the erosion in the
distribution of income.
This year, Costa Rica placed
48th among the 177 nations
evaluated, one slot down from
2005 and more distant from the
41st position it had in 2001.
Norway places 1st in the world, and the best ranked Latin American country
is Chile, 38th.
The Index is made by the United
Nations Program for Development
and it analyzes three key
issues: health, which takes in
life expectancy; education,
which measures the rate of
enrollment; and economy,
regarding the growth of economy
and yearly income.
The document points out that 2.2
percent of the population of
Costa Rica – 86,000 people –
live on less than $1 a day,
while 7.5% of them (322,000) do
so on $2.
The major single item that
accounts for Costa Rica’s
performance is the increasing
gap in income when those with
the highest are compared to
those with the lowest, analysts
point out.
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