The ranking covers 175 UN member states, as well as Hong Kong (a special administrative region of China) and the Palestinian Authority. Another 17 states are not included in the ranking due to a lack of necessary statistics.
The top ten countries with the highest level of human development are: Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, and France. The United States ranked 12th.
The countries of the former USSR are placed in the ranking as follows: Lithuania - 43rd place, Estonia - 44th, Latvia - 45th, Belarus - 64th, Russia - 67th (the above-mentioned states are included in the group of 70 countries with a 'high level of human development').
According to Washington ProFile, the group of countries with a 'medium level of human development' (84 states) includes Kazakhstan (73rd place), Ukraine (76th), Armenia (83rd), Georgia (96th), Azerbaijan (98th), Turkmenistan (109th), Moldova (111th), Uzbekistan (113th), Kyrgyzstan (116th), and Tajikistan (122nd).
For comparison, the United Kingdom is in 16th place, Germany - 22nd, Israel - 23rd, Czech Republic - 32nd, Cuba - 51st, Saudi Arabia - 61st, Albania - 68th, Venezuela - 74th, Thailand - 78th, China - 81st, Turkey - 84th, Iran - 94th, India - 128th, Pakistan - 136th. The last places in the ranking went to Sierra Leone (last, 177th position), Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau.