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I am aware of the oil. The tiny population. La la. However check out Iranian literacy rates and poverty rates. They are far better than Gabon. Poverty rates in Gabon are over 32% and are below 9% in Iran. You may well ask me why I am prepared to cite one set of figures but dismiss others. The reason is common sense. Iran has been a competant state for century plus. It has had oil for over half a century. Gabon got oil yesterday and and was a banana state the day before by comparison.
Iran > http://data.worldbank.org/country/iran-islamic-republic
Gabon > http://data.worldbank.org/country/gabon
List of Least developed Nations . There are a total of 48 least developed nations in the world according to United nations classification :
http://unctad.org/en/Pages/ALDC/Least Developed Countries/UN-list-of-Least-Developed-Countries.aspx
Bangladesh is still ranked as LDC because of lower GDP per capita and high poverty
LDC's are ranked on 3 criteria :
- Poverty – adjustable criterion based on GNI per capita averaged over three years. As of 2015 a country must have GNI per capita less than US $1,035 to be included on the list, and over $1,242 to graduate from it.
- Human resource weakness (based on indicators of nutrition, health, education and adult literacy) and
- Economic vulnerability (based on instability of agricultural production, instability of exports of goods and services, economic importance of non-traditional activities, merchandise export concentration, handicap of economic smallness, and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters)
Look at figures from 2009, BD was put lower than Pakistan on HDI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index_(2009)
BD - HDI 0.543
Pakistan - HDI - 0.572
Was there a conspiracy against BD in 2009?
Components of HDI are the following:
Now to compare Iran and Gabon on each of these components:
- A long and healthy life: Life expectancy at birth.
- Education index: Mean years of schooling and Expected years of schooling.
- A decent standard of living: GNI per capita (PPP US$)
1. Life expectancy - Iran 74 versus Gabon 53 > Iran wins easily
2. Education - Iran 7.8 versus Gabon at 7.4 years > Iran wins just about
3. GNI - Iran 12,000 versus Gabon at 22,000 > Gabon wins
As for Gabon getting oil only yesterday, it had a GDP PPP/capita of 14,000 US dollars way back in 2000!
I am not saying that HDI is a perfect measure of people's well-being but it seems to be easiest way to capture a snapshot of the average person's life in a specific country.
In 2015 BD was at just over 1,300 US dollars GNI per capita and so cannot be classified in that list.
There are numerous rankings to see quality of life like LDC list , HDI and United nations happiness report . PK was ranked 92 on United nations happiness report ( ranks quality of life) and BD was ranked in 120s . Same with Least developed list where Bangladesh is mentioned and PK is not due to higher GDP per capita and low Poverty compared to BD BD has not yet satisfied United nations on poverty that is why it remains on the Least developed list .
HDI measures life expectancy and education where BD fares better . Happiness report measures things like housing and social support where again BD is way lower than PK . least developed list includes stuff like GDP per capita and poverty where again BD is lower .
Then there is mercers quality of life lists where Karachi , Lahore , Islamabad all rank higher than Dhaka . So there are numerous Quality of life rankings .