Why is there not a single ISLAMIC country in the HDI list in the list of top 30 countries.?

Question

The Human Development Index (HDI) was developed by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq. It is a measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide & is a standard means of measuring well-being.
In the list of top thirty countries ranked on the basis of HDI, there is not a single Islamic country even though they control most of the world’s oil.
Is it because the blind faith does not allow for rational thinking which is a must for scientific progress?
Or because of a lack of freedom in Islamic societies (innovations & inventions thrive in free societies & free thought)
Or because of the intolerance practised in Islam - no tolerance for criticism or the other point of view, or the inability to accept that there is a problem. (To solve a problem the first step is to accept there is one!)
No disrespect meant here.

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

samantha-Going by the virtually unlimited oil revenue of most gulf countries would you not expect there to be at least 10 islamic countries in the top 30?

ppmm..Firstly, what I have said are not ideas but facts.
Also please note HDI not about wealth (its more about what you do with your wealth). In fact the parameters on which HDI is based are not wealth at all!

Answer 1

Countries dominated by Islamic theocracies tend to be at the bottom of the heap intellectually, culturally, and economically. Is there a correlation. Obviously.

Answer 2

How can you say no disrespct but spew forth all kinds of disrespectful ideas?
Just because the gov't are wealthy, that doesn't mean people are wealthy.
By the way there are SIZEABLE Muslims populations in several of the countries in the top 30 (France for example has Europe's largest Muslim population). And Kuwait was 33, Bahrain 39, Qatar was 46, and the UAE was 49, so it's not like they were at the BOTTOM. In fact, only one Arab Muslims country that was in the bottom 30 was Yemen which is saturated with Somalian refugees (Somalia by the way was not included).

Answer 3

Kuwait and Burnei (SP) are 33rd on the list. The main reason is becouse Islamic countries to be mostly backward with pockets of wealth.

Answer 4

I see UAE is green on that map in wikipedia...
And also the other Arabic countries under Persian Gulf are green as well (other than Saudi Arabia)
They are all Muslim countries...

Answer 5

It is time that you asked an Arab this question....anyone else here...what do you think....