simulation of human development index in khuzestan province with emphasis on healthy living and access to knowledge and comparison with iran

The human development index is a composite index for measuring the three criteria of long and healthy life, access to knowledge and the right level of well-being in life. since 2011, the components of human development index including, education, the combination of the average age of education for adults (25 years and older population) and the expected years of schooling, life expectancy index and per capita income. human development index (hdi henceforth) is in fact the geometric mean of these three indexes. this index is calculated annually by the united nations development program (undp) for countries but not for states, provinces, urban areas and regions in those countries. the main purpose of this study was to simulate human development index in khuzestan province and compare it with that of iran as a whole in 1996, 2006, 2011 and 2016. the results show that human development index in khuzestan has reached from the average level of 0.64 in 1996 to the high level of 0.74 in 2016. the results also show that khuzestan province is better in human development index with oil sector, and worse in human development index without oil sector. hdi simulation results show that there was a steady upward trend in the years under review, but there has been a structural break in human development index since 2005. based on this simulation, human development index in khuzestan province reached an intermediate level until 2009, and a high level after 2010.