BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei Darussalam is the fifth highest in the East and South-East Asian region in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) but dropped two spots overall to 55th place out of 193 countries in the latest report.
The index measures a country’s health, education and standard of living. The Sultanate scored down to 0.823 in 2022 from 0.83 in 2021. Human development levels were “very high” in Hong Kong (fourth), Singapore (ninth), South Korea (19th), Japan (24th) and Brunei (55th).
