2009 Report
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This report breaks new ground in applying a human development approach to the study of migration.
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The indicator tables of this year’s Report cover 182 UN member countries
along with Hong Kong, SAR (China)
and Occupied Palestinian Territories.
These countries and areas are classified in four ways: by human development
level, by income, in major world aggregates and by region [see 
Classifications of countries and regions [58 KB]]. These designations do not necessarily express a judgment
about the development stage of a particular country or area. The term country
as used in the text and tables refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas.
Human development classifications. Starting this year there are four categories in the HDI: very high, high, medium and low. Very high (with an HDI of 0.900 or above), high human development (0.800-0.899), medium human development (0.500–0.799) and low human development (less than 0.500).
Major world classifications. The four other groups are the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council states (GCC) and for analytical purposes of this report a new category was introduced in the migration-related tables: the world excluding the former Czechoslovakia and the countries that were part of the former Soviet Union and. These groups are not mutually exclusive. Unless otherwise specified, the classification world represents the universe of 193 countries and areas covered.
Regional classifications. This year’s report includes two sets of regional classifications: by continents and by regions. For analytical purposes, the tables related to migration include the continents groupings: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania. The rest of the tables include the regions classifications as in previous reports: Developing countries are further classified into the following regions: Arab States, Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean (including Mexico), South Asia and and Sub-Saharan Africa. These regional classifications are consistent with the Regional Bureaus of UNDP.
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