17/11/2014
Ranked as the second in the Gulf, Arab world and 34 globally
Saudi Arabia occupies tenth place among the Group of Twenty in «human development»
Saudi Arabia has made significant progress in the human development report of the United Nations development program for 2014, ranking 34th worldwide compared with 57 in 2013, bound to the Group of countries with high human development. She also finished second in the Arab world and Gulf and 10th place in the g-20, which is a positive development must be built on and developed to rank in the human development index since its launch in 1990, and better arranged than the world average rate of improvement arranged groups of other States.
Confirmed the analytical study prepared by the Secretariat of the Supreme Economic Council of Saudi Arabia, in the human development report of the United Nations development program for 2014 entitled ' further progress. Build strength and risk ', with important improvements resulting from economic and social development in the Kingdom, but the components of that evidence and other evidence and order of the Kingdom, as well as the results of opinion polls about levels of client satisfaction with human development, all point to the areas that can be given to improve the ranking of their Kingdom. The study noted that the human development report to 2014 as a precedent in terms of comprehensive human development that do not depend on the States achievements in terms of financial resources, but beyond that to include an integrated system of the human right to live a decent life long, and education and knowledge, and to enjoy a decent standard of living.
The report followed the same methodology as was done in 2010 to measure levels of human development, the report tries to 2014 to consider factors that put human development and shows how to change the risks in adopting ' life cycle approach ', with the aim of assisting decision makers and development actors to adopt policies focusing on preventing risks and build strength. Human development report provides a variety of information and detailed data on all indicators of human development in 187 countries, the mandate will in each year of human progress by using human development index, a composite measure comprising the monitoring indicators for the three dimensions: health, education, income, and each of these dimensions is measured depending on the sub-indices.
The report calculated the human development index of human development index adjusted by a factor of inequality, gender, guide and the multidimensional poverty index, the gender-development index (a novelty for this year, 2014). According to the human development index, the 49 States within the Group of countries with high human development, spearheaded by Norway, while 53 countries high human development group, and 42 States within the Group of medium human development, and 43 in the low human development group. In order to determine the strengths in the process of human development and construction, and monitor vulnerabilities and challenges into opportunities to achieve greater achievements at the State and the citizen, the General Secretariat of the Supreme Economic Council in monitoring and analysing the reality of the Kingdom in the human development report, macro and micro indicators, comparison with the world average and the average of the Group of countries with high human development, the g-20 the Arabic, and Gulf.
Said Abdul Latif al Othman, Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority made in the human development report of the United Nations development program for 2014, the considerable jump skip over 23 ranking and its transition from 57 to 34 globally is significant achievement we are entitled to be proud and celebrate being a product of considerable effort and work is on the ground, adding that this development is the translation process for all programs, plans and projects, approved by the Kingdom respectively during the past years, the draft King Abdullah for the development of education and King Abdullah scholarship program, along with the generous allocation of spending a high proportion of the State budget for the education sector development in Saudi Arabia, we have seen the expansion of university education and the significant increase in the number of universities, which was founded within the past few years.
He noted that technical and vocational training Corporation to play its role together with technical and vocational education for the sons and daughters of Saudi Arabia, in order to develop their abilities in the disciplines of technical task of entering the labor market, and are armed with information and training to meet the requirements and needs of the growth and prosperity of the Saudi economy in General, and all those factors have undoubtedly created a real boom in the construction and development of Saudi Arabia at various levels to be effective and able contributor to economic and social development efforts and in our country, thankfully.
