Table 2. Human Development Index in Asian countries in 2012.

HDI	POPULATION	Human Development Index (HDI)	Life expectancy at birth	Mean Year of schooling	Gross national income (GNI) per capita
Very high	Japan	0.912	83.6	11.6	32545
	Korea, Republic of	0.909	80.7	11.6	28,231
	Israel	0.9	81.9	11.9	26,224
High	Singapore	0.895	81.2	10.1	52,613
	Brunei	0.855	78.1	8.6	45,690
	Qatar	0.834	78.5	7.3	87478
	United Arab Emirates	0.818	76.7	8.9	42,716
Medium	Bahrain	0.796	75.2	9.4	19,154
	Kuwait	0.79	74.7	6.1	52,793
	Saudi Arabia	0.782	74.1	7.8	22,616
	Malaysia	0.769	74.5	9.5	13,676
	Kazakhstan	0.754	67.4	10.4	10,451
	Georgia	0.745	73.9	12.1	5005
	Lebanon	0.745	72.8	7.9	12,364
	Iran, Islamic Republic of	0.742	73.2	7.8	10,695
	Azerbaijan	0.734	70.9	11.2	8153
	Oman	0.731	73.2	5.5	24,092
	Armenia	0.729	74.4	10.8	5540
	Turkey	0.722	74.2	6.5	13,710
	Sri Lanka	0.715	75.1	9.3	5170
	Jordan	0.7	73.5	8.6	5272
	China	0.699	73.7	7.5	7945
	Turkmenistan	0.698	65.2	9.9	7782
	Thailand	0.69	74.3	6.6	7722
	Maldives	0.688	77.1	5.8	7478
	Mongolia	0.675	68.8	8.3	4245
	State of Palestine	0.67	73	8	3359
	Philippines	0.654	69	8.9	3752
	Uzbekistan	0.654	68.6	10	3201
	Syrian Arab Republic	0.648	76	5.7	4674
	Indonesia	0.629	69.8	5.8	4154
	Kyrgyzstan	0.622	68	9.3	2009
	Tajikistan	0.622	67.8	9.8	2119
	Viet Nam	0.617	75.4	5.5	2970
	Iraq	0.59	69.6	5.6	3557
	Timor-Leste	0.576	62.9	4.4	5446
	India	0.554	65.8	4.4	3285
	Cambodia	0.543	63.6	5.8	2095
	Lao PDR	0.543	67.8	4.6	2435
	Bhutan	0.538	67.6	2.3	5246
	Bangladesh	0.515	69.2	4.8	1785
	Pakistan	0.515	65.7	4.9	2566
Low	Myanmar	0.498	65.7	3.9	1 817
	Nepal	0.463	69.1	3.2	1137
	Yemen	0.458	65.9	5.3	928
	Afghanistan	0.374	49.1	3.1	1000
Unknown	Korea, Democratic Republic of	–	–	–	–