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apita. Peope with more money to buy things are doing better
peope wich ess。
本 However thas approach has problems. One particular problen
76S 色iHure to consider social issues. In 1990, the Pakistant econons
Mappbub nu』 Tag。 working on the first United Nations ma
Deveopment Report, created the Hiuman Development tndex (HID
Yay to measure the relative development of different countries
GDP per capita, ongevity (bow long people Hive), and Hiteracy ra
rany people can read and write) to create a ranking for all countries
1990. the top-ranked country was Japan: for most of the past ten
立 as been Torway
緒 Whny use jiteracy and longevity? The 1990 report argues thatthi
" apty to read and write is the basis of learning and economic sucee
3n aga je. Similarly a long life can also show how healthy peonle:
妨rougjhout jifo. Most importantly literacy rates and 1ongevity ae e
numpers 4o collect because most governments record them.
