The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a report on Tuesday said that Nigeria’s Human Development Index (HDI) had increased by 13.1 per cent between 2005 and 2015.
At the launch of UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) 2016 in Abuja, the UNDP Resident Representative, Mr Edward Kallon said the achievement was before the recession.
The HDI is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development
Kallon expressed satisfaction with the feat recorded by the nation within the spate of 10 years and called for an urgent action by the government to sustain the gain.
“The report shows that between 2005 and 2015, Nigeria’s HDI increased from 0.466 to 0.527, this translates to a 13.1 per cent increase.
“This is encouraging, but given the humanitarian challenges already alluded to and the economic recession witnessed in 2016, there is an urgent need to design policies and programmes to ensure that the upward trend in human development is not reversed.
“As the 2014 Human Development Report aptly noted, success is not automatic and gains are not necessarily permanent.
‘’In this regard, the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) recently launched by the Government outlined several medium-term policies and programmes that could keep Nigeria on a positive development trajectory,” he said.
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