Egypt ranks 116th on the 2019 Human Development Report

Egypt ranks 116 on 2019 Human Development Report: Egypt’s Human Development Index (HDI) score improved slightly from 0.696 in 2017 to 0.70 in 2018, placing the country in the “high human development” category. Our score is below the category average of 0.75, and also falls just short of the Arab states’ average of 0.703. Out of 189 countries and territories surveyed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Egypt is ranked 116. Between 2013 and 2018, we dropped two spots in the ranking despite an improved score. Norway, Switzerland, and Ireland are still leading the charts globally, while the UAE, which ranks 35 globally, tops the Arab states’ ranking. You can read the report here (pdf).