For the record, Norway topped the list, begin in the very high human development (VHHD) category, both those years, while being given a 0.943 HDI estimate in 2011 (The classifications used by UNDP range upwards from LHD at the bottom to MHD to high human development (HDD) and ending with VHHD). Significantly, there was no change in the ranking position of South Asian coutries vis-a-vis each other the two years, although Blutan was considered in 2011 and Pakistan was downgraded to the LHD category that year. The hard fact remains that the best performer in South Asia, Sri Lanka, languishes only just above the halfway mark of the countries ranked (91 out of 169 in 2010, and 97 out of 187 in 2011), although, interestingly, four of the top ten countries that had the largest HDI percentage increase between 1980 and 2010 belong to this region. The following graphic will attest to that.