UAE, Bahrain, Turkey top Islamic countries on World Bank Human Capital Index
UAE, Bahrain and Turkey are the top Islamic countries on the World Bank Group’s Human Capital Index 2020 but there is still a wide gap between them and the world’s frontrunners.
The World Bank’s 2020 Human Capital Index presents a decade-long view of human capital evolution. Released on Wednesday (September 16), the report depicts data for 174 countries up to March 2020. The leading countries overall are Singapore, Hong Kong, and six countries tied on the same third-placed score: Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, Macau, and Sweden.
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