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In total, the HDI is available for 192 countries and one territory. Countries ranked from 1 to 69 in 2022 are designated "very high" HDI; those ranked from 70 to 115 are designated "high" HDI; those ranked from 116 to 159 are denoted "medium" HDI; and those ranked from 160 to 193 are designated "low" HDI. Data are for the year 2022.
- Planetary Pressures–Adjusted HDI
This is a list of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted...
- Asia and Oceania
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure...
- Planetary Pressures–Adjusted HDI
The HDI is a metric that measures countries' achievements in health, education, and standard of living, and shows a global upward trend but recent declines due to COVID-19. See the 2021/22 HDI report, the countries with the highest and lowest HDI scores, and the emerging concerns in the Human Development Index.
Rankings. Economy. Global Insights on Human Development. Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistical measure that quantifies a country's overall achievements in its social and economic dimensions.
The HDI measures average achievement in health, education and income across countries. Explore the latest HDI data, download the dataset and learn how to use the HDI to question policy choices.
- The Human Development Index
- The Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index
- The Gender Development Index
- The Augmented Human Development Index
- What Can We Learn from These Indices?
The Human Development Index is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).2It is the most well-known index of human development. It is based on the idea that human development means that people have long and healthy lives, are knowledgeable, and have a decent standard of living. More specifically, these three dimensions are measur...
The UNDP also publishes the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI).7 It uses the same three principles of human development as the HDI: living a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having enough income to maintain a decent standard of living. However, the IHDI acknowledges that life expectancy, education, and incomes differ w...
The UNDP also publishes the Gender Development Index (GDI).9 It characterizes human development just like the HDI and the IHDI, but it acknowledges that life expectancy, expected and average access to education, and incomediffer between men and women. It uses gender-specific data across three dimensions (such as incomes for men and women) to calcul...
The Augmented Human Development Index (AHDI) is produced by the economic historian Leandro Prados de la Escosura.11 It gives a more historical perspective on human development by covering countries earlier in time.12 Like the HDI, the AHDI characterizes human development as people having long and healthy lives, being knowledgeable, and having a dec...
Whether the Human Development Index and related measures are useful to better understand human development will depend on the questions we want to answer. If we want a general overview of people’s health, education, and living standards, we can learn much from this data. The indices are particularly useful for identifying countries with better or w...
- Max Roser
- 2014
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The list below displays the top-ranked country from each year of the Human Development Index. Norway has been ranked the highest sixteen times, Canada eight times, and Switzerland, Japan, and Iceland have each ranked twice.
Find a country in the list of 180 countries by human development index (HDI) value and change from 2020. Compare the HDI values of different regions and countries, and see the rankings and filters for more details.