UAE among top Arab nations for social progress.

The UAE has retained its top ranking among the GCC states in the 2019 Social Progress Index, which takes into account 51 indicators including nutrition, shelter, safety, education, health, personal rights, and inclusiveness.

Ranked 61st with 69.84 points score, the UAE was rated higher than Russia, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Oman, India, and China. However, the country's ranking fell 16 places from 45th position last year, revealed data compiled by the Social Progress Imperative - a US-based non-profit organisation.

The UAE has been bracketed along with several resource-rich countries including Russia (62nd, 69.71 points), Qatar (64th, 69.37 points), and Kazakhstan (69th, 68.20).

The UAE achieved the top score with a first rating in a number of sub-indexes including undernourishment of population, access to electricity and mobile telephone subscription. The emirates also scored highly in vulnerable employment, perceived criminality, discrimination and violence against minorities, Internet users, access to online governance, quality of electricity supply and primary school enrollment of children and corruption sub-indexes. Regionally, the UAE is followed by Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia among the Arab countries. Among other major countries, Turkey was ranked 72nd, China 89th, the Philippines 94th, Egypt 96th, India 102nd and Pakistan 125th.

The top 10 positions are dominated by Scandinavian countries, led by Norway, which ranked first on the 2019 Social Progress Index with a score of 90.95, followed by Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and Japan.

Michael Green, CEO of Social Progress Imperative, said that...

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