The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator that measures a country’s overall progress across three key dimensions: health (measured by life expectancy), education (educational attainment and enrollment rates), and standard of living (gross national income per capita). Syria, a Middle Eastern country, has seen a dramatic deterioration in its HDI in recent years due to the civil war that has been ongoing since 2011. Prior to the conflict, Syria was ranked among the medium human development countries, but the effects of the conflict have seriously hampered its progress in almost all dimensions of human development. 1. Evolution of the…