ISLAMABAD – Pakistan ranks 134 of 157 countries in the Human Capital Indexof the World Bank, below other South Asian nations including Afghanistan.
The World Bank Group unveiled a new system to rank countries based on theirsuccess in developing human capital, an effort to prod governments toinvest more effectively in education and healthcare.
The Human Capital Index measures the amount of human capital that a childborn today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor healthand education that prevail in the country where he or she lives.
The rankings, based on health, education and survivability measures, assessthe future productivity and earnings potential for citizens of 157 of theWorld Bank’s member nations, and ultimately those countries’ potentialeconomic growth.
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According to the Human Capital Index, a child born in Pakistan today willbe 39 percent as productive when she grows up as she could be if sheenjoyed complete education and full health.
According to the report, a Pakistani child was expected to complete just8.8 years of education if enrolled in school at age 4. These average schoolyears are much below the global average of 11.2 years of education thatchildren could expect to attain. Even in South Asia, an average child couldexpect to attain 10.5 years of education.
