## 1 Introduction
Countries that are not under evaluation include Spain (0.84) and Malta (0.81). A look at the change in social creation under the HDI shows that the EU countries, the UK and Norway considered in the study made remarkable progress over 28 years. A comparison of the 1990 and 2018 data shows that the highest positive HDI change recorded among the 25 EU member countries,  
Figure 3: Social progress index, 2019, and HDI, 2018, and average HDI, 1990–2018, values in analysed countries. Figure 2: GDP per capita in USD, 2018, and ease of doing business ranking, 2020, values in analysed countries. Norway, the UK under evaluation occurred in Ireland (0.18); Croatia (0.17); Czech Republic, Latvia and Poland (0.16); Estonia and the UK (0.15); Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Hungary and Cyprus (0.14); Denmark (0.13); Sweden, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, Romania and Slovakia (0.12); France, Belgium and Italy (0.11); and Norway and Netherlands (0.10). The smallest recorded, positive HDI change among the 25 EU member countries, the UK and Norway under evaluation occurred in Slovenia (0.07) (see Figure 3). Countries that are not under evaluation include Spain (0.14) and Malta (0.14). For the social progress index in 2019, the leading countries are Norway (90.95) and Denmark (90.09), followed by Finland (89.56), Sweden (89.45), Germany (88.84), Netherlands (88.31), the UK (87.98), Ireland (87.97), France (87.79), Luxembourg (87.66), Portugal (87.12), Belgium (86.77), Austria (86.4), Slovenia (85.8), Italy (85.69), Czech Republic (84.36), Estonia (83.98), Cyprus (83.14), Greece (82.48), Lithuania (81.3), Poland (81.25), Slovakia (80.43) and Latvia (80.42). The following are countries with social progress index 12.90% or more below that of Norway: Croatia (79.21), Hungary (78.77), Bulgaria (76.17) and Romania (74.81) (see Figure 3). Countries that are not under evaluation include Spain (87.47) and Malta (82.63), which have similar social progress index values as the UK and Greece. For the average GDP growth during 1990-2019 (annual %), the leading country is Norway (8.40), followed by Finland (5.83), Hungary (4.98), Luxembourg (4.62), Germany (4.53), Netherlands (4.40), Cyprus (4.38), Romania (4.31) and Lithuania (4.22). The following are countries have average growth during 1990-2019 (annual %) two times or more below that of Norway: Belgium (4.20), Portugal (4.16), Austria (4.15), Estonia (4.14), Bulgaria (3.88), Slovenia (3.76), Poland (3.67), Italy (3.27), Slovakia (3.15), Denmark (3.03), Latvia (2.92), Croatia (2.82), Greece (2.57), France (2.19) and Czech Republic (2.02). The lowest average GDP growth in 1990-2019 (annual %) is in the UK (1.96), Ireland (1.71) and Sweden (1.64) (see Figure 4). Countries that are not under evaluation include Spain (2.29) and Malta (4.80), which have similar average GDP growth during 1990-2019 (annual %) as France and Hungary. For inflation growth, consumer prices (annual %) in 2019, the leading EU member country is Greece (0.60%), followed by Cyprus (0.70%), Italy (0.70%), Portugal (0.90%) and Croatia (1.00%). The following countries have twice or more inflation growth than Greece: France (1.20%), Finland (1.20%) and Ireland (1.20%), followed by Denmark (1.30%), Germany (1.50%), Belgium (1.50%), Austria (1.50%), Sweden (1.70%), Luxembourg (1.70%), the UK (1.80%), Slovenia (1.80%), Norway (2.30%), Lithuania (2.30%), Poland (2.40%), Estonia (2.50%), Bulgaria (2.50%), Netherlands (2.50%), Slovakia (2.60%) and Czech Republic (2.60%). The highest inflation growth is in Latvia (3.00%), Hungary (3.40%)  
Figure 4: Average GDP growth, 1990–2019, unemployment rate, 2019, inflation growth, 2019, and public debt, 2019, values in analysed countries. and Romania (4.20%) (see Figure 4). Countries that are not under evaluation include Spain--(0.70%), which has the lowest indicator from all comparing countries, and Malta (1.70%), which has the same inflation growth as in Sweden or Luxemburg.