M’sia moves up Human Development Index

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has gone up in ranks in terms of its people’s life expentancy, standard of living and knowledge status, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) index.

Malaysia scored 0.802 in its Human Development Index (HDI) for 2017, which is considered as “very-high human development”, according to the 2018 statistical update of Human Development Indices and Indicators.