Can you name the lowest ranked non-African countries in the latest Human Development Report? by Milan

Can you name the lowest ranked non-African countries in the latest Human Development Report?

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Source: hdr
There is no data available for North Korea, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Monaco, San Marino and Tuvalu.
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Rank	Country	HDI
172		0.398
158		0.454
157		0.458
154		0.462
153		0.466
149		0.483
147		0.495
146		0.500
145		0.504
142		0.510

Rank	Country	HDI
141		0.522
139		0.523
138		0.524
134		0.547
132		0.573
131		0.574
129		0.589
128		0.593
127		0.607
126		0.615

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Least developed Countries outside Africa Quiz

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Created Feb 20, 2010 in Geography
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	Catherine_F:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 22:31 GMT	5 points
	There are eight more non-African countries at the bottom of the source list that have no data, in addition to North Korea and Iraq. Just saying cos I tried a few and was surprised not to see them.

	France:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 05:26 GMT	3 points
	North Korea and Iraq have not been rated by the HDI for a few years already. This is most likely due to the fact that Iraq is in the middle of a war and North Korea is a totalitarian police state, so it's hard to get information on them.

	HiddenPalace:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 13:30 GMT	0 points
	Moldova is a really poor country by European standards, eh? It even makes its neighbour Romania look rich in comparison.

	Pit_trout:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 02:20 GMT	11 points
	For the ones that are unrated in the source, perhaps include them as bonuses, displayed as eg "North Korea: no data" or something? I see why you can't rank them, but as Catherine_F says, it seems odd not having them included at all.

	jnhickson:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 13:18 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, interesting. India surprised me.

	Hamburger:	Apr 18th, 2010 at 23:54 GMT	5 points
	Has no one from HDI been to Kosovo? I have. It needs to be on here.

	Darcy:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 22:32 GMT	2 points
	Why is it that HDI didn't include so many countries from Oceania on the list?

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	Zephos:	Oct 9th, 2010 at 02:39 GMT	6 points
	North Korea would probably be on here, you obviously don't know much about it. It's not just a police state, it's a poverty and famine stricken police state. Also about Kosovo, the HDI did rank it at one point and it scored a .733, not very good but just short of this list. They don't generally include it because of it's political situation.

	Karja:	Oct 10th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT	1 point
	Nobody really knows much about North Korea as the country is isolated. The last time it was included in the HDI (1998) it ranked at #75. I'm not sure if the situation there really is that precarious as its always described.

	gowhere:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 13:24 GMT	3 points
	@Hamburger: This index seems to focus only on UN members. Kosovo, because of its disputed status, is not a member, hence, no inclusion. Also, Zephos data isn't too surprising - the rest of former Yugoslavia isn't on here either.

	NorwegianSalmon:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 21:01 GMT	2 points
	Am I the only one who got the -stans from typing Kyrgyzstan as a joke?

	mr_parcheesi:	Nov 11th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT	1 point
	I'm really surprised that Indonesia has a higher development ranking than India.

	indianwolf1992:	Dec 15th, 2010 at 12:08 GMT	3 points
	@mr_parcheesi: Indonesia does not have as bad a poverty situation as is depicted in the media. India, on the other hand, has severe poverty, malnutrition, conflict and disease issues which are kept out of the popular imagination of India Shining.

	Zephos:	Dec 21st, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	3 points
	@Karja: When North Korea was rated in 98' it was before the famines. It's been getting worse since the Soviet Union and friends fell, a downward slide.

	koopa08:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 00:23 GMT	1 point
	Hard to believe that Suriname is not on this list.

	gowhere:	Dec 29th, 2010 at 20:51 GMT	2 points
	India is a mass of contradictions. It is booming because it has a large middle/upper class in absolute numbers relative to other countries in the world that are producing and consuming goods, making it an economic powerhouse. However, it has a much larger population of impoverished people, as well.

	Zephos:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 09:38 GMT	4 points
	India is a goddamned mess. China I can see really emerging from it's still lower living standards as well as it's still socially and politically totalitarian system into a highly successful modern working democracy with great living. India I do not.