Estonia has improved its ranking by one place in the latest United Nations annual Human Development Index (HDI) scoreboard, being tied for place 33 with Andorra.
Estonia climbs one place in UN human development index
15th March 2013, 18:56
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Just like in previous years, Estonia is ranked as a country of very high human development.
In the rankings for 2011 Estonia was in place 34.
Of Estonia's closest neighbors Finland ranked 21st, Sweden seventh, Lithuania 41st and Latvia 44th. Lithuania had climbed two places and Latvia one place compared with the rankings for 2011.
Russia, in 55th place, ranked one category lower, as country of high human development.
The top three places in the scoreboard ranking 186 countries went to Norway, Australia and the United States.
HDI is a composite measure of health, education and income that was introduced by the United Nations in the first Human Development Report in 1990 as an alternative to purely economic assessments of national progress, such as GDP growth. It soon became the most widely accepted and cited measure of its kind, and has been adapted for national use by many countries.