{"id":830,"date":"2013-06-24T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2013-06-24T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T19:56:23","slug":"barbados-is-top-caribbean-country-in-human-development-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-is-top-caribbean-country-in-human-development-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados is top Caribbean country in Human Development Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is the highest ranked\u00a0Caribbean country in the United Nations&#8217; Human Development\u00a0Report for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Barbados was ranked at <strong>#38<\/strong> out of #187 countries with an overall rating of\u00a00.825. Norway topped the index with a rating of\u00a00.955.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting rankings were\u00a0United States: #3 with\u00a00.937;\u00a0Canada: #11 with\u00a00.911;\u00a0United Kingdom: #26 with\u00a00.875.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Development Index\u00a0is a composite measure of 3 basic aspects of human development: health, education and income.\u00a0Barbados remains well above\u00a0the regional average for\u00a0Latin America and the Caribbean and is the only Caribbean country listed in the\u00a0<strong>high human development<\/strong> category.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163\" alt=\"Bridgetown, Barbados\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bridgetown-barbados.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bridgetown-barbados.jpg 500w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bridgetown-barbados-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bridgetown, Barbados<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is the highest ranked Caribbean country in the United Nations&#8217; Human Development Report for 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[29,258,259],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}