(Ha'aretz) - A United Nations Human Development Index for the year 2000 ranked Israel 22 out of 174 countries. At the top of the HDI is Sweden, followed by Canada, the United States, Australia, Holland, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, and Britain. Israel ranks ahead of Greece and Portugal. The HDI, published annually since 1990, combines economic and social data on a wide range of issues including life expectancy, health conditions, education levels, and economic class gaps. Israel belongs to the group of countries with the highest per capita development, life-expectancy, and education standards, and ranks eighteenth in the world in technological research and development.
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