List of countries by Human Development Index

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 191 nations in the annual Human Development Report. The index considers the health, education and income in a given country to provide a measure of human development which is comparable between countries and over time.[1][2]

World map representing Human Development Index categories (based on 2021 data, published in 2022)
  •   Very high (≥ 0.800)
  •   High (0.700–0.799)
  •   Medium (0.550–0.699)
  •   Low (≤ 0.549)
  •   Data unavailable
World map of countries or territories by Human Development Index scores in increments of 0.050 (based on 2021 data, published in 2022)
  •   ≥ 0.950
  •   0.900–0.950
  •   0.850–0.899
  •   0.800–0.849
  •   0.750–0.799
  •   0.700–0.749
  •   0.650–0.699
  •   0.600–0.649
  •   0.550–0.599
  •   0.500–0.549
  •   0.450–0.499
  •   0.400–0.449
  •   ≤ 0.399
  •   Data unavailable

The HDI is the most widely used indicator of human development and changed how people view the concept.[3][4] However, several aspects of the index have received criticism. Some scholars have criticized how the factors are weighed, in particular how an additional year of life expectancy is valued differently between countries;[4][5] and the limited factors it considers, noting the omission of factors such as the levels of distributional and gender inequality.[6][7] In response to the former, the UNDP introduced the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) in its 2010 report, and in response to the latter the Gender Development Index (GDI) was introduced in the 1995 report.[8][9] Others have criticized the perceived oversimplification of using a single number per country.[10][11] To reflect developmental differences within countries, a subnational HDI (SHDI) featuring data for more than 1,600 regions was introduced in 2018 by the Global Data Lab at Radboud University in the Netherlands.[11] In 2020, the UNDP introduced another index, the planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index (PHDI), which decreases the scores of countries with a higher ecological footprint.[12]

Dimensions and indicators

The HDI was first published in 1990 with the goal of being a more comprehensive measure of human development than purely economic measures such as gross domestic product. The index incorporates three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent living standards. Various indicators are used to quantify how countries perform on each dimension. The indicators used in the 2022 report were life expectancy at birth; expected years of schooling for children; mean years of schooling for adults; and gross national income per capita. 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 0.699 as medium, and below 0.550 as low.[1][13][14]

The data used to calculate HDI comes mostly from United Nations agencies and international institutions, such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Rarely, when one of the indicators is missing, cross-country regression models are used. Due to improved data and methodology updates, HDI values are not comparable across human development reports; instead, each report recalculates the HDI for some previous years.[14][15]

HDI Dimensions and Indicators[16]
DimensionsIndicatorsDimension indexHDI
Long and healthy life
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Life expectancy indexHuman Development Index
    Knowledge
  • Expected years of schooling
  • Mean years of schooling
  • Education index
    A decent standard of living
  • GNI per capita (PPP $)
  • GNI index

    Nations

    Average annual HDI growth from 2010 to 2021 published in 2022
    •   ≥ 1.4%
    •   1.2%…1.4%
    •   1%…1.2%
    •   0.8%…1%
    •   0.6%…0.8%
    •   0.4%…0.6%
    •   0.2%…0.4%
    •   0%…0.2%
    •   −0.5%…0%
    •   −1%…−0.5%
    •   < −1%
    •   No data

    The Human Development Report includes all 193 United Nations member states, as well as the State of Palestine and Hong Kong SAR. However, The Human Development Index is not calculated for four UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea), Monaco, Nauru, and Somalia. Some components of the index may be calculated for these countries. In total, the HDI is available for 191 nations.[2]

    Global Data Lab also provides data on the HDI of Somalia, putting it at 0.361 (2019), the lowest in the world, though data for Syria is unavailable.[17]

    Countries ranked from 1 to 66 in 2021 are designated "very high" HDI, those ranked 67 to 115 are designated "high" HDI, those ranked 116 to 159 are denoted "medium" HDI, and those ranked 160 to 191 are designated "low" HDI.[18][14]

    Table of countries by HDI
    Rank Nation HDI
    2021 data (2022 report)[2] Change since 2015[19] 2021 data (2022 report)[2] Average annual growth (2010–2021)[19]
    Very High Human Development
    1 (6)  Switzerland 0.962 0.19%
    2 (1)  Norway 0.961 0.19%
    3 (6)  Iceland 0.959 0.56%
    4 (8)  Hong Kong 0.952 0.44%
    5 (3)  Australia 0.951 0.27%
    6 (1)  Denmark 0.948 0.34%
    7 (7)  Sweden 0.947 0.36%
    8  Ireland 0.945 0.40%
    9 (5)  Germany 0.942 0.16%
    10 (3)  Netherlands 0.941 0.24%
    11 (12)  Finland 0.940 0.29%
    12 (7)  Singapore 0.939 0.29%
    13 (9)  Belgium 0.937 0.25%
    14 (1)  New Zealand 0.15%
    15 (5)  Canada 0.936 0.25%
    16 (1)  Liechtenstein 0.935 0.22%
    17 (3)  Luxembourg 0.930 0.18%
    18 (2)  United Kingdom 0.929 0.17%
    19 (2)  Japan 0.925 0.27%
    (2)  South Korea 0.35%
    21 (11)  United States 0.921 0.10%
    22 (3)  Israel 0.919 0.25%
    23 (10)  Malta 0.918 0.58%
    (1)  Slovenia 0.28%
    25 (1)  Austria 0.916 0.14%
    26 (16)  United Arab Emirates 0.911 0.80%
    27 (1)  Spain 0.905 0.38%
    28 (8)  France 0.903 0.27%
    29 (4)  Cyprus 0.896 0.41%
    30 (5)  Italy 0.895 0.13%
    31 (1)  Estonia 0.890 0.30%
    32 (4)  Czechia 0.889 0.20%
    33 (4)  Greece 0.887 0.19%
    34 (2)  Poland 0.876 0.37%
    35 (12)  Bahrain 0.875 0.73%
    (1)  Lithuania 0.35%
    (1)  Saudi Arabia 0.64%
    38 (3)  Portugal 0.866 0.40%
    39 (5)  Latvia 0.863 0.42%
    40 (8)  Andorra 0.858 0.11%
    (4)  Croatia 0.40%
    42 (1)  Chile 0.855 0.46%
    43 (5)  Qatar 0.23%
    44NA[lower-alpha 1]  San Marino 0.853NA[lower-alpha 1]
    45 (5)  Slovakia 0.848 0.09%
    46 (3)  Hungary 0.846 0.20%
    47 (2)  Argentina 0.842 0.09%
    48 (23)  Turkey 0.838 1.03%
    49 (1)  Montenegro 0.832 0.27%
    50 (1)  Kuwait 0.831 0.20%
    51 (3)  Brunei 0.829 0.01%
    52 (2)  Russia 0.822 0.29%
    53 (4)  Romania 0.821 0.16%
    54 (3)  Oman 0.816 0.32%
    55 (2)  Bahamas 0.812 0.00%
    56 (4)  Kazakhstan 0.811 0.51%
    57 (2)  Trinidad and Tobago 0.810 0.23%
    58 (4)  Costa Rica 0.809 0.43%
    59  Uruguay 0.25%
    60 (3)  Belarus 0.808 0.21%
    61  Panama 0.805 0.37%
    62 (1)  Malaysia 0.803 0.39%
    63 (7)  Georgia 0.802 0.50%
    (2)  Mauritius 0.55%
    (4)  Serbia 0.41%
    66 (6)  Thailand 0.800 0.75%
    High Human Development
    67 (2)  Albania 0.796 0.49%
    68 (9)  Bulgaria 0.795 0.06%
    69 (2)  Grenada 0.795 0.15%
    70 (2)  Barbados 0.790 0.02%
    71 (3)  Antigua and Barbuda 0.788 0.02%
    72 (8)  Seychelles 0.785 0.10%
    73 (9)  Sri Lanka 0.782 0.54%
    74 (10)  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.780 0.67%
    75 (2)  Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.777 0.21%
    76 (2)  Iran 0.774 0.35%
    77 (2)  Ukraine 0.773 0.11%
    78 (5)  North Macedonia 0.770 0.39%
    79 (19)  China 0.768 0.97%
    80 (16)  Dominican Republic 0.767 0.73%
    81 (9)  Moldova 0.45%
    82 (7)  Palau 0.07%
    83 (7)  Cuba 0.764 0.19%
    84 (1)  Peru 0.762 0.45%
    85 (5)  Armenia 0.759 0.16%
    86 (8)  Mexico 0.758 0.15%
    87 (1)  Brazil 0.754 0.38%
    88 (1)  Colombia 0.752 0.32%
    89 (4)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.751 0.21%
    90 (6)  Maldives 0.747 0.75%
    91 (2)  Algeria 0.745 0.30%
    92 (1)  Azerbaijan 0.22%
    93 (10)  Tonga 0.40%
    94 (2)  Turkmenistan 0.43%
    95 (14)  Ecuador 0.740 0.05%
    96 (4)  Mongolia 0.739 0.48%
    97 (13)  Egypt 0.731 0.73%
    (1)  Tunisia 0.52%
    99 (3)  Fiji 0.730 0.20%
    100 (7)  Suriname 0.09%
    101 (11)  Uzbekistan 0.727 0.70%
    102 (11)  Dominica 0.720 0.11%
    102 (2)  Jordan 0.06%
    104 (10)  Libya 0.718 0.26%
    105 (2)  Paraguay 0.717 0.42%
    106 (2)  Palestine 0.715 0.36%
    (11)  Saint Lucia 0.16%
    108 (12)  Guyana 0.714 0.77%
    109 (4)  South Africa 0.713 0.50%
    110 (3)  Jamaica 0.709 0.06%
    111 (6)  Samoa 0.707 0.08%
    112 (2)  Gabon 0.706 0.56%
    (21)  Lebanon 0.79%
    114 (3)  Indonesia 0.705 0.55%
    115 (5)  Vietnam 0.703 0.53%
    Medium Human Development
    116  Philippines 0.699 0.33%
    117 (6)  Botswana 0.693 0.44%
    118  Bolivia 0.692 0.40%
    119  Kyrgyzstan 0.38%
    120 (41)  Venezuela 0.691 0.80%
    121 (1)  Iraq 0.686 0.63%
    122 (3)  Tajikistan 0.685 0.68%
    123 (14)  Belize 0.683 0.31%
    124 (3)  Morocco 1.14%
    125 (2)  El Salvador 0.675 0.22%
    126 (1)  Nicaragua 0.667 0.76%
    127 (6)  Bhutan 0.666 1.25%
    128 (4)  Cape Verde 0.662 0.25%
    129 (11)  Bangladesh 0.661 1.64%
    130 (2)  Tuvalu 0.641 0.36%
    131 (1)  Marshall Islands 0.639NA[lower-alpha 1]
    132 (1)  India 0.633 0.88%
    133 (5)  Ghana 0.632 0.88%
    134  Micronesia 0.628 0.04%
    135 (6)  Guatemala 0.627 0.33%
    136 (1)  Kiribati 0.624 0.53%
    137  Honduras 0.621 0.36%
    138 (4)  Sao Tome and Principe 0.618 1.00%
    139 (7)  Namibia 0.615 0.46%
    140 (1)  Laos 0.607 0.88%
    141 (4)  East Timor 0.18%
    142 (3)  Vanuatu 0.24%
    143 (4)    Nepal 0.602 0.94%
    144 (4)  Eswatini 0.597 1.57%
    145 (6)  Equatorial Guinea 0.596 0.26%
    146 (3)  Cambodia 0.593 0.85%
    147 (1)  Zimbabwe 1.34%
    148 (3)  Angola 0.586 1.27%
    149 (1)  Myanmar 0.585 1.26%
    150 (5)  Syria 0.577 1.21%
    151 (2)  Cameroon 0.576 1.06%
    152  Kenya 0.575 0.49%
    153 (9)  Republic of the Congo 0.571 0.16%
    154 (4)  Zambia 0.565 0.60%
    155 (1)  Solomon Islands 0.564 0.23%
    156  Comoros 0.558 0.64%
    157 (2)  Papua New Guinea 1.02%
    158 (2)  Mauritania 0.556 0.79%
    159 (8)  Ivory Coast 0.550 1.38%
    Low Human Development
    160 (2)  Tanzania 0.549 0.98%
    161 (2)  Pakistan 0.544 0.68%
    162 (4)  Togo 0.539 1.12%
    163 (3)  Haiti 0.535 1.94%
    164 (1)  Nigeria 0.95%
    165  Rwanda 0.534 0.80%
    166 (6)  Benin 0.525 0.59%
    167 (3)  Uganda 0.41%
    168 (3)  Lesotho 0.514 0.88%
    169 (4)  Malawi 0.512 1.06%
    170 (1)  Senegal 0.511 0.80%
    171 (1)  Djibouti 0.509 0.96%
    172 (4)  Sudan 0.508 0.40%
    173 (3)  Madagascar 0.501 0.16%
    174 (1)  Gambia 0.500 0.76%
    175 (6)  Ethiopia 0.498 1.74%
    176 (2)  Eritrea 0.492 0.55%
    177 (2)  Guinea-Bissau 0.483 0.79%
    178  Liberia 0.481 0.41%
    179 (1)  Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.479 1.01%
    180 (5)  Afghanistan 0.478 0.59%
    181 (1)  Sierra Leone 0.477 1.01%
    182 (1)  Guinea 0.465 1.04%
    183 (6)  Yemen 0.455 1.03%
    184 (2)  Burkina Faso 0.449 1.72%
    185 (2)  Mozambique 0.446 0.95%
    186 (1)  Mali 0.428 0.53%
    187 (2)  Burundi 0.426 0.46%
    188 (2)  Central African Republic 0.404 0.75%
    189 (2)  Niger 0.400 1.54%
    190 (1)  Chad 0.394 0.77%
    191 (3)  South Sudan 0.385 1.00%

    Regions and groups

    The Human Development Report also reports the HDI for various groups of countries. These include regional groupings based on the UNDP regional classifications,[20] HDI groups including the countries currently falling into a given HDI bracket, OECD members and various other UN groupings.[21] The aggregate HDI values are calculated in the same way as for individual countries with the input data being the weighted average for all countries with available data in the group.[22]

    Table of regions and groups by HDI[23]
    Region or group19902000201020152018201920202021
    OECD 0.7950.8400.8750.8930.9010.9050.8970.899
    Very high human development 0.7840.8260.8680.8890.8980.9020.8950.896
    Europe and Central Asia 0.6640.6810.7460.7830.7980.8020.7930.796
    Latin America and the Caribbean 0.6330.6890.7330.7580.7660.7680.7550.754
    High human development 0.5570.6250.7000.7340.7510.7560.7530.754
    East Asia and the Pacific 0.5070.5920.6840.7220.7410.7480.7480.749
    World 0.6010.6450.6970.7240.7360.7390.7350.732
    Small Island Developing States 0.6010.6490.6930.7230.7340.7380.7320.730
    Arab states 0.5550.6180.6760.6970.7110.7150.7080.708
    Developing countries 0.5130.5690.6380.6730.6870.6910.6870.685
    Medium human development 0.4530.5060.5820.6270.6430.6450.6420.636
    South Asia 0.4420.5000.5760.6230.6400.6410.6380.632
    Sub-Saharan Africa 0.4070.4300.5030.5340.5470.5520.5490.547
    Least developed countries 0.3570.4080.4870.5200.5370.5420.5420.540
    Low human development 0.3560.3990.4770.5060.5180.5220.5190.518

    See also

    • List of countries by Human Development Index by region
      • Africa
      • Asia and Oceania
      • Europe
      • Latin America
    • List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • List of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index

    Notes

    1. HDI not available before 2018 in latest report

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