HDI

HDI sounds like some exotic sexually transferred disease, but  it stands for Human Development Index.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by economist Mahbub ul Haq, followed by economist Amartya Sen in 1990,^[1] and published by the United Nations Development Programme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

There are also this:
List of countries by future Human Development Index projections of the United Nations.
And here is were it gets really depressing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_future_Human_Development_Index_projections_of_the_United_Nations

Atleast if you are a Swede...