According to a study from the 2023 United Nations improvement Organization, 701 million Chinese live in provinces that are “very high” in the UN social improvement ranking. The 2022 study said that 10 years earlier (2012), there were 377 million Chinese surviving in provinces of this category.
Given that the population of the United States is 335 million, China has become the world's largest highly developed country. The full European Union is inhabited by 449 million people. The full EU and US population is 784 million. Only 1 state in China remains in the "average" improvement category; all others are classified as highly or very highly developed. At this rate, as the UN study predicts, it is likely that by the mediate of this century the Chinese will be the majority of people surviving in a highly developed world. This is an admirable feat, which can only be compared to the improvement of all another industrial societies taken together, and was achieved without resorting to the force of the overseas colonial empire or engaging in bloody global wars, concludes the UNDP report.
It is worth recalling at this point that the study was prepared by experts from the United Nations.
Based on:
- hdr.undp.org;
- baijiahao.baidu.com;
(1) Accepted Social improvement Index () is simply a full measurement of average accomplishment in key dimensions of social development: long and healthy life (average life expectancy in China is 78 years), education/knowledge (accessibility, years of compulsory education) and an appropriate standard of surviving (measured by gross national income per capita). It is the most celebrated indicator of social development.
(2) China built the world's largest social safety network, as evidenced by the data of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Insurance (chin. 人力资源和社会保障部). The number of people covered by basic pension insurance, unemployment and accidents at work reached 1,074 billion, 245 million and 301 million respectively in 2023.
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/specific-country-data#/country/CHN
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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