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Country X

Consider the economic data provided below and see if you can use them to identify Country X

Figure 1 Trends in the human development index

Country X has been classified as an upper-middle income country according to its GNI per capita (measured by the World Bank Atlas method) since 2011. In terms of its human development indicator (HDI), Country X is in the ‘high’ human development category, ranked eighty-seventh in the world.

Figure 1 shows how the HDI has changed over time, showing steady improvement throughout the period since 1990, albeit having been overtaken by China in the last couple of years.

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