Human Development

What is Human Development? 

More specifically, what is the study of human development compared among individual countries? To answer this question we must examine the measures of what human development attempts to analyze. The Human Development Index seeks to quantify the level of life expectancy, education, and income equality based on interal factors within the country. The human development index was introduced as an alternative measure to the analysis of a countries GDP. The human development index accounts for human well-being as opposed to purely economic factors. 
"Human Development Reports." The Human Development Index – What It Is and What It Is Not. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.

People First : Human Development Reports

Mongolia is ranked 103 on the Human Development Index with an index of 0.698, that has had a steady increase since the 1980s possibly due to modernization and globalization. Largely an agrarian society, many Mongolians have had steady employment due to the farming industry, and have an average life expectancy of 67.5 years.

Mongolia's Human Development in comparison to other countries
Source: Human Development Reports

What is of interest on the Human Development Index are the numbers concerning education, gender equality and CO2 emissions:

Source: China daily

Expected schooling for Mongolians is ranked at 15 years, yet the average amount of school is 8 years, which may be due to the agrarian society. Mongolians are required for farming as opposed to schooling, and with labor being confined to agriculture there is not much need for education.

 

Source: http://preventionaction.org/

The same anomaly can be observed in gender equality, which is surprisingly equal with a ranking of 0.32, which may also be due to the agrarian lifestyle. There tends to be a pattern of gender inequality in developing countries, which Mongolia is part of, yet little gender inequality exist at all. In fact, there are even more women who possess higher degrees of education 

in comparison to men.







Carbon Emissions levels also showed some interest. Since Mongolia is largely an agrarian society, one would expect the carbon emission levels to be low, but Mongolia also borders China, the most polluted and greenhouse gas producing country in the world. This pollution likely spreads north to Mongolia where it affects the population and introduces high levels of smog. 

Source: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/