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This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
Birth rate: 12.3 births/1,000 population: ... Australian babies: 0 year olds as a fraction of total persons, in Australia, according to the 2011 census results ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices "HDI" redirects here. For other uses, see HDI (disambiguation). For the complete ranking of countries, see List of countries by Human Development Index. World map of countries and territories by HDI scores in ...
First introduced in 1990, the “dollar-a-day” poverty line measured absolute poverty according to the standards of the world's poorest countries. The World Bank defined the new international poverty line as $1.27 a day for 2005 (equivalent to $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices) [4] but it was later updated to $1.25 and $2.50 per day. [5]
A more frequently encountered inequality measure is the Gini coefficient which is based on the summation, over all income-ordered population-percentiles, of the cumulative income up to each percentile. That sum is divided by the maximum value that it could have (its value with complete equality), to express it as a percentage of its maximum ...
In November 2024, a government report revealed that Australia's gender pay gap narrowed marginally to 21.8%, a 0.6 percentage point improvement from the previous year. Despite this progress, women on average still earned A$28,425 ($18,590) less annually than their male counterparts.
Teen birth rates in the U.S. have decreased from 1991 through 2012 (except for an increase from 2005 to 2007). [65] The other aberration from this otherwise-steady decline in teen birth rates is the six percent decrease in birth rates for 15- to 19-year-olds between 2008 and 2009. [65]
Within prisons throughout Australia, the male population makes up the majority of those imprisoned. Specifically in New South Wales, over 9 in 10 (92%) of prisoners were male. [17] The rate of male prisoners has continued to increase in recent years. Growing from 398 to 406 prisoners per 100,000 male adult population. [17]