The Arab Region and Human Development
The Arab region witnessed an improvement in its Human Development Index (HDI) [1], an index that combines three dimensions of human development, namely health, education, and living standards, from 0.618 in 2000 to 0.708 in 2021. In fact, this overall gain hides regional variations; while the HDI reached a value of 0.911 in the United Arab Emirates, it registered a low of 0.455 in Somalia