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Every individual should be ensured for peace and security to maintain social and
community life.
When people have less fulfillment of basic needs, lack of employment, lack of income,
increase of poverty, family disputes, poor health and sanitation, high infant and maternal
mortality rate, they have low quality life. Low quality life shows low living standard and
unhappiness as well as dissatisfaction in life. Hence, various efforts for health services,
education, nutrition, sanitation, security, income, saving, etc. should be increased to
enhance the quality life. Quality life is measured in Human Development Index(HDI)
in which literacy rate, per capita income and life expectancy of people are considered.
Countries are marked in (0–1) value in HDI. Countries having high HDI value are
considered developed as well as have quality life and vice versa.

Human Development Index of SAARC countries, 2015 and 2016
Rank in Rank in 2016 Country HDI Value in 2015 HDI value in 2016
2015
73 73 Srilanka 0.757 0.766
104 105 Maldives 0.706 0.701
130 131 India 0.609 0.624
132 132 Bhutan 0.607 0.607
142 139 Bangladesh 0.570 0.579
145 144 Nepal 0.548 0.558
147 147 Pakistan 0.538 0.550

171 169 Afghanistan 0.465 0.479
Source: Human Development Report, 2015 and 2016
Countries with High Human Development Index, 2015 and 2016

Rank Country HDI Value
1 Norway 0.949
2 Australia 0.939
3 Switzerland 0.939
4 Germany 0.926
5 Denmark 0.925
6 Singapore 0.925
7 Netherlands 0.924
8 Ireland 0.923
9 Iceland 0.921
10 Canada 0.920
11 United States 0.920

Source: Human Development Report, 2016

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