Lebanon is up to 72nd on the UNDP Human Development Report whilst the gender equality index continues to deteriorate || Newspapers (Arabic)

The UNDP Human Development Report for 2013 which was published under the title “The rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World indicates that Lebanon has climbed to the 72nd place out of a total of 187 countries.
The report notes an increase in life expectancy at birth by 6.2 in addition to a 2.9 increase mean years of schooling and 77% in the GDP per capita and that is between 1990 and 2012.
According to the same report, Lebanon’s human development indicator for 2012 is 0.745 and which is less than the average of 0.758 for those countries with a high and above average indicators but is higher than the average of the Arab countries (0.652)
The report noted the deterioration in Lebanon’s gender equality indicator which was calculated at 0.433 thus placing Lebanon in the 73d position out of a total of 143 countries whose GE index was calculated for 2012.  The report further highlights that women’s participation in parliament does not exceed 3.1% whilst 51% of adult women have reached the secondary and higher education levels compared to 55.4% for males.
Source: Al-Nahar 16 March, L’Orient Le Jour 21 March 2013