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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 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 ...
The 2010 Human Development Report—The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development—showed through a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends that most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains.
The HDI ranges from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating higher human development. The HDI itself was created by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990, and was further used by the UNDP to measure the country's development in its annual Human Development Reports.The index was initially calculated at the country level.
The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1. The geometric mean of the three indices—that is, the cube root of the product of the indices—is the human development index. A value above 0.800 is classified as very high, between 0.700 and 0.799 as high, 0.550 to 0. ...
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary index assessing countries on 3 dimensions, health, education and standard of living using life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI PPP per capita. The final HDI is a value between 0 and 1 with countries grouped into four ...
This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, territory, and federal district according to the UN. All U.S. states and territories have a very high (greater than 0.800) HDI.
The index does not cover Macau, a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of Mainland China are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China, which is calculated by the annual UNDP Human Development Report , is exclusively applied to the mainland.
List of African countries by Human Development Index Rank Country Human Development Index (HDI) Region World 2022 data (2024 report) Change in HDI value 2023-2024 [3] Very high human development 1 67 Seychelles: 0.802 0.007 High human development 2 72 Mauritius: 0.796 0.006 3 92 Libya: 0.746 4 93 Algeria: 0.745 0.005 5 101 Tunisia: 0.732 0.003