While Guyana has moved up two places on the United Nations Development Programme’s latest Human Development Index (HDI), where it now ranks 123rd of 189 countries, worrying indicators, including the high number of maternal deaths and significant gender inequality, persist.
According to the Human Development Report 2019, titled ‘Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century,’ Guyana remains in the Medium Human Development group of countries but is the second lowest ranked CARICOM member, ahead of only Haiti, which is in the Low Human Development group.
