THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX IN ROMANIA IN COMPARAISON WITH THE OTHER EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

The complexity of the aspects regarding the human development is quantified by the indicator named “The Human Development Index”, with three essential components: longevity, education level and living standard. Romania made progress in the last years, by surpassing the value of 0,800 in 2004 and 0,808 in 2005. These results determine a place for Romania among the high Human Development Index countries, due to the improvements in all the components of HDI Index, with great increase of the standard of living. Evan this, Romania still holds the last position within the European Union countries.