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Bulgaria continues to be in the group of countries with high levels of human Development, states the Human Development Index (HDI) published today, which is an important part of the Human Development Report. The HDI for Bulgaria is 0.824, which gives the country a rank of 53rd out of 177 countries with data. During the last years Bulgaria ascends with one place each year in the HDI ranking.

“Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world” is the theme of 2007/2008 Human Development Report. Climate change threatens unprecedented human development reversals, says the report.

Press materials on the themes of the Report and the data on Bulgaria can be found on Report`s special page at undp.bg

More information:

• Press Release (only in Bulgarian)
• Official page of the human Development Report
• UNDP TV stories for the HDR Launch