SOCIETY: HOW ARE WE DOING? (HDI)

[Nilgiri]

Hopefully it's true dude..it's not like I want Pakistan's HDI to be lower. Just being cautious.

May be new census data and updated economic indicators were used in the newer report? I don't know. Pakistan has yet to rebase its GDP to 2010 or something. We are using 2006 as our base still! (There were partial rebasing but never fully done).

@Nilgiri What do you think?

This is Pakistan's internal HDI composite measure. It uses different components to the international one.

You can find those components in the report in the appendices etc, stuff like immunisation rate as posted by @Kabira in post 4:

The differences between the international one and this seems to be:

- For health, instead of life expectancy....immunisation rate and health facility satisfaction are the two components.

- Education is same (MYS and EYS....these were changed some years back in the international one from literacy rate)

- Economic well being, they use "living standard" here (instead of GDP per capita PPP)....I think maybe they will explain that more in the report.

India is doing better in HDI, in either case this report is good to compare different districts of Pakistan for now.

Yes its very appropriate for Pakistan to map where the deficiencies are the greatest and prioritise those ones esp by the population of those districts/areas etc.

@Chak Bamu @django @Zibago @Major Sam @farhan_9909

 

[Kabira]

Gwadar because of port and Tharparkar because of coal could become medium level HDI districts in next update when ever it comes, probably few years away. FATA could have been low medium to medium HDI if it was mainstreamed back in 1947. Now its very low HDI while neighbour districts in KP much better.

Balochistan is more tricky because of huge land and little population. As that map clearly suggest urban areas do better which also help their neighbour districts. Here too Gwadar and Quetta by becoming high HDI districts can play huge role in increasing HDI of surrounding districts to medium.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Kabira bhai

How this compare with other regional countries?

This question is best asked to my dear friend Brof Riazul Haq sb.

Regards

 

[Affan-khan]

Balochistan 352 Billion PKR Budget . I dont know where they spend it. or all go in pockets of few.
Same is Sindh a budget of almost 75 % of Punjab Budget but Population is half.