European countries according to the Human Development Indez 2021

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About time to open such a thread. N.B. While the notion that Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are part of Europe is contentious, the UN (and many other organisations) regard them as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...elopment_Index

VERY HIGH
1/ (1) Switzerland 0.962
2/ (2) Norway 0.961
3/ (3) Iceland 0.959
4/ (6) Denmark 0.948
5/ (7) Sweden 0.947
6/ (8) Republic of Ireland 0.945
7/ (9) Germany 0.942
8/ (10) Netherlands 0.941
9/ (11) Finland 0.940
10/ (13) Belgium 0.937
11/ (16) Liechtenstein 0.935
12/ (17) Luxembourg 0.930
13/ (18) United Kingdom 0.929
14/ (23) Malta/Slovenia 0.918
16/ (25) Austria 0.916
17/ (27) Spain 0.905
18/ (28) France 0.903
19/ (29) Cyprus 0.896
20/ (30) Italy 0.895
21/ (31) Estonia 0.890
22/ (32) Czechia 0.889
23/ (33) Greece 0.887
24/ (34) Poland 0.876
25/ (35) Lithuania 0.875
26/ (38) Portugal 0.866
27/ (39) Latvia 0.863
28/ (40) Andorra/Croatia 0.858
30/ (44) San Marino 0.853
31/ (45) Slovakia 0.848
32/ (46) Hungary 0.846
33/ (48) Turkey 0.838
34/ (49) Montenegro 0.832
35/ (52) Russia 0.822
36/ (53) Romania 0.821
37/ (60) Belarus 0.808
38/ (63) Georgia/Serbia 0.802

HIGH
40/ (67) Albania 0.796
41/ (68) Bulgaria 0.795
42/ (74) Bosnia-Herzegovina 0.780
43/ (77) Ukraine 0.773
44/ (78) North Macedonia 0.770
45/ (80) Moldova 0.767
46/ (85) Armenia 0.759
47/ (91) Azerbaijan 0.745

[Tooting Carmen]

Apparently Kazakhstan is also classified as being part of Europe, even though as the article itself says it is only a very tiny portion of west of the Urals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...elopment_Index