Egypt advances 11 positions in UNDP index

The Cabinet Media Centre on Tuesday published a report highlighting Egypt’s human development performance during the last 8 years.

Egypt advanced 11 positions in the Human Development Index issued by the UNDP at 97th with a total of 0.731 points in 2021, compared to 108th with 0.690 points in 2014, the report said.

Egypt is now in the category of countries of high human development in the Arab countries index for 2020 and 2021.

Regarding education, Egypt was up 14 places in the education quality index issued by US News, which means that Egypt comes 37th this year up from 51st in 2019.

In the Seimago scientific publishing index, Egypt came 26th in 2021 from 37th in 2014.

Egypt was up 10 places to 89th from 99th in 2014 in the innovation index issued by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which bases its rankings on research and development, research spending, and export of high-tech industries.

The report mentions that Egypt advanced three positions in the quality of life index – 54th in 2022 from 57th in 2016.

Meanwhile, Egypt ranked 51st out of 127 countries on the 2022 World Energy Trilemma Index, up three positions than last year, the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) announced on Tuesday.

Egypt registered 60.8 points on the Index this year, the IDSC added in a statement.

The Index gives insights into a country’s relative energy performance concerning energy security, energy equity and environmental sustainability, thus highlighting a country’s challenges in balancing the Energy Trilemma and opportunities for improvements in meeting energy goals now and in the future.

Index rankings provide comparisons across countries on each of the three dimensions based on global and national data. It also includes recommendations for improvement in policy coherence and integrated policy innovation, thereby helping to develop well-calibrated energy systems.

Sweden came first on the Index, followed by Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and the UK. The UAE, meanwhile, ranked 26th worldwide and was first among Arab countries. Niger, Benin and the Democratic Republic of Congo were in the bottom three positions.