The United Nations is an international organization established immediately after World War 2 to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems. The United Nation's Charter, which is the organization's governing treaty, was first drawn up in 1945 at a meeting held in San Francisco. The principle organs of the United Nations charter are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat. Other than trying to maintain peace and order around the world, the United Nations also gives an annual report of each country's economic and social status in the world in order to find the problems that a country might be facing. The United Nations uses the human development index to measure the quality of life in different places in the world. The human development index is made up of indicators, which are elements of the standard of living that are used to measure contrasts between societies. Each indicator in the human development index meas

The second indicator used in the old human development index was the Life expectancy. Life expectancy is the number of years a person is expected to live. Developed countries usually have greater life expectancies than the less developed countries. For example, Afghanistan, which is one of the least developed countries in the world has a life expectancy of 46.5 years while Canada, which is a developed country has an average life expectancy of 79.1 years. One factor that could affect the life expectancy of a country is the environment the population of that country lives in. For instance if the people of a country live in a place where there is not much sanitation, there is a good chance that a large number of people in that country would die as a result of diseases, caused by bacteria.

ures and compares a specific element of standard of living in a country. In this essay, we will compare the old human development index to the new and improved human development index. We will also learn about Canada's ranking in the world and some of the problems Canada is facing today.

The second indicator used in the new Human Development Index is the deprivation in knowledge. This indicator is measured by the percentage of the population functionally illiterate, which is basically the percentage of the population lacking an ability to read and write adequate for the most basic demands of modern society, such as reading instructions on a medicine bottle. Just like the old human development index, the new one uses The International Adult Literacy Survey to measure the literacy rate of a country. When comparing the deprivation in knowledge of developed countries with the developing countries, it's clearly evident that developed countries have a lower deprivation in knowledge than the developing countries. However, illiteracy is not just a problem that exists in the developing countries. Illiteracy is a world wide problem that affects all the countries in the world. One billion people in the world, which turns out to be 26% of the adult population are illiterate and almost 2/3 of the world's illiterate people are women.

The third indicator used in the new Human Development Index is the deprivation in economic provisioning. The deprivation in economic provisioning is measured by the proportion of people whose disposable income is less than 50 pe

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