intsika yethu local municipality - Provincial Spatial Development plan

3.4 Human Development IndexThe level of development is a complex measure to capture in any society. Indeed much of the datapreviously presented in this situational analysis speaks to aspects of development. Nevertheless there areimportant internationally recognised indicators of development that should be looked at in order for oneto gain a good understanding of what kind of society is being analysed. The Human Development Index(HDI) is possibly the most internationally recognised measure of a society’s standards of living. This is acomparative measure which looks at indicators such as life expectancy, literacy and education.Table 17: HDI for the Eastern Cape, District and IYLM1995 2000 2005 2010FORECASTEastern CapeProvinceChris HaniDistrictMunicipalityIntsika YethuLocalMunicipality0.4757 0.4968 0.5171 0.48280.4156 0.4296 0.4512 0.41260.3712 0.3891 0.4123 0.3731Source: ECSECC, Statistics Database, 2011The HDI of a particular group is displayed by a measurement between 1 and 0, the closer to 1 a society is,the higher the level of development on the other groups that measure closer to 0 are classified as lessdeveloped. The HDI looks specifically at life expectancy, education and income per capita in order tocalculate the level of development of a given society or group.The table above presents development indicators spanning over a number of years for IYLM, CHDM andthe Eastern Cape Province. The ECSECC data shows that IYLM maintains a relatively low HDI, wellbeneath the national average. In 2010 ECSECC forecasted that IYLM’s HDI would be 0.3731 which isbelow the national and the provincial averages of 0.5501 and 0.4828 respectively. This means that IYLM isa poorly developed society by local and international standards.41