List of countries by Human Development Index

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     0.950 and over      0.900–0.949      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      0.350–0.399      under 0.350      Data unavailable
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This is a list of countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Program's Human Development Statistical Update released on December 18, 2008, compiled on the basis of data from 2006. It covers 177 U.N. member countries (out of 192), along with: Hong Kong (SAR of China) and PA-governed territories. Fifteen U.N. member countries are not included due to lack of data. The average HDI of regions of the World and groups of countries are also included for comparison. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya Sen.[1]

History of the Human Development Report

Countries fall into three broad categories based on their HDI: high, medium and low human development.

Contents

[edit] Complete list of countries

  • = increase.
  • = steady.
  • = decrease.
  • Similar HDI values in the current list do not lead to ranking ties, since the HDI rank is actually determined using HDI values to the sixth decimal point.
  • The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down) since the 2005 survey.

Note: This revision of the index was released on December 18, 2008. This so-called "statistical update" covers the period up to 2006 and was published without an accompanying report on human development. The update is relevant due to newly released estimates of purchasing power parities (PPP), implying substantial adjustments for many countries, resulting in changes in HDI values and, in many cases, HDI ranks.[2]

[edit] High

Rank Country HDI
2006 data[3][nb 1] Change compared to 2005 data[nb 1][3]
1  Iceland 0.968 +0.001
2  Norway 0.968 +0.001
3  Canada 0.967 +0.002
4  Australia 0.965 +0.002
5  Ireland 0.960 +0.002
6  Netherlands 0.958 +0.002
7  Sweden 0.958 +0.001
8  Japan 0.956 +0.003
9  Luxembourg 0.956 +0.002
10  Switzerland 0.955 +0.002
11  France 0.955 +0.002
12  Finland 0.954 +0.004
13  Denmark 0.952 +0.003
14  Austria 0.951 +0.003
15  United States 0.950
16  Spain 0.949 +0.003
17  Belgium 0.948 +0.003
18  Greece 0.947 +0.004
19  Italy 0.945 +0.003
20  New Zealand 0.944 +0.001
21  United Kingdom 0.942 -0.002
22  Hong Kong (SAR) 0.942 +0.004
23  Germany 0.940 +0.002
24  Israel 0.930 +0.003
25  South Korea 0.928 +0.006
26  Slovenia 0.923 +0.006
27  Brunei 0.919 +0.002
28  Singapore 0.918 +0.002
29  Kuwait 0.912 -0.003
30  Cyprus 0.912 +0.001
31  United Arab Emirates 0.903 +0.002
32  Bahrain 0.902 +0.006
33  Portugal 0.900 +0.002
34  Qatar 0.899 +0.004
35  Czech Republic 0.897 +0.005
36  Malta 0.894 +0.003
37  Barbados 0.889 +0.002
38  Hungary 0.877 +0.004
Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
39  Poland 0.875 +0.005
40  Chile 0.874 +0.003
41  Slovakia 0.872 +0.007
42  Estonia 0.871 +0.006
43  Lithuania 0.869 +0.005
44  Latvia 0.863 +0.007
45  Croatia 0.862 +0.005
46  Argentina 0.860 +0.006
47  Uruguay 0.859 +0.005
48  Cuba 0.855 +0.017
49  Bahamas 0.854 +0.002
50  Costa Rica 0.847 +0.004
51  Mexico 0.842 +0.005
52  Libya 0.840 +0.004
53  Oman 0.839 +0.005
54  Seychelles 0.836 +0.002
55  Saudi Arabia 0.835 +0.003
56  Bulgaria 0.834 +0.005
57  Trinidad and Tobago 0.833 +0.007
58  Panama 0.832 +0.005
59  Antigua and Barbuda 0.830 +0.004
60  Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.830 +0.002
61  Venezuela 0.826 +0.010
62  Romania 0.825 +0.008
63  Malaysia 0.823 +0.004
64  Montenegro 0.822 +0.006
65  Serbia 0.821 +0.004
66  Saint Lucia 0.821 +0.005
67  Belarus 0.817 +0.007
68  Republic of Macedonia 0.808 +0.003
69  Albania 0.807 +0.004
70  Brazil 0.807 +0.005
71  Kazakhstan 0.807 +0.008
72  Ecuador 0.807 +0.003
73  Russia 0.806 +0.005
74  Mauritius 0.802 +0.005
75  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.802 +0.005

[edit] Medium

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
76  Turkey 0.798 +0.007
77  Dominica 0.797 -0.001
78  Lebanon 0.796 +0.001
79  Peru 0.788 +0.008
80  Colombia 0.787 +0.005
81  Thailand 0.786 +0.004
82  Ukraine 0.786 +0.006
83  Armenia 0.777 +0.010
84  Iran 0.777 +0.007
85  Tonga 0.774 +0.002
86  Grenada 0.774 +0.001
87  Jamaica 0.771 +0.003
88  Belize 0.771
89  Suriname 0.770 +0.006
90  Jordan 0.769 +0.006
91  Dominican Republic 0.768 +0.007
92  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.766 +0.004
93  Georgia 0.763 +0.004
94  China[nb 2] 0.762 +0.008
95  Tunisia 0.762 +0.006
96  Samoa 0.760 +0.002
97  Azerbaijan 0.758 +0.016
98  Paraguay 0.752 +0.003
99  Maldives 0.749 +0.002
100  Algeria 0.748 +0.003
101  El Salvador 0.747 +0.002
102  Philippines 0.745 +0.002
103  Fiji 0.743
104  Sri Lanka 0.742 +0.003
105  Syria 0.736 +0.005
106  Palestine 0.731 +0.003
107  Gabon 0.729 +0.002
108  Turkmenistan 0.728 +0.001
109  Indonesia 0.726 +0.007
110  Guyana 0.725 +0.004
111  Bolivia 0.723 +0.005
112  Mongolia 0.720 +0.006
113  Moldova 0.719 +0.005
114  Vietnam 0.718 +0.004
Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
115  Equatorial Guinea 0.717 -0.002
116  Egypt 0.716 +0.004
117  Honduras 0.714 +0.006
118  Cape Verde 0.705 +0.008
119  Uzbekistan 0.701 +0.003
120  Nicaragua 0.699 +0.006
121  Guatemala 0.696 +0.006
122  Kyrgyzstan 0.694 +0.002
123  Vanuatu 0.686 +0.006
124  Tajikistan 0.684 +0.004
125  South Africa 0.670 -0.001
126  Botswana 0.664 +0.008
127  Morocco 0.646 +0.008
128  São Tomé and Príncipe 0.643 +0.006
129  Namibia 0.634 +0.003
130  Congo 0.619 +0.007
131  Bhutan 0.613 +0.013
132  India 0.609 +0.009
133  Laos 0.608 +0.007
134  Solomon Islands 0.591 +0.003
135  Burma 0.585 +0.004
136  Cambodia 0.575 +0.009
137  Comoros 0.572 +0.004
138  Yemen 0.567 +0.006
139  Pakistan 0.562 +0.014
140  Mauritania 0.557 +0.010
141  Swaziland 0.542 -0.003
142  Ghana 0.533 +0.009
143  Madagascar 0.533 +0.005
144  Kenya 0.532 +0.006
145  Nepal 0.530 +0.009
146  Sudan 0.526 +0.012
147  Bangladesh 0.524 +0.007
148  Haiti 0.521 +0.006
149  Papua New Guinea 0.516 +0.002
150  Cameroon 0.514
151  Djibouti 0.513 +0.005
152  Tanzania 0.503 +0.009
153  Senegal 0.502 +0.003

[edit] Low

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
154  Nigeria 0.499 +0.005
155  Lesotho 0.496 +0.002
156  Uganda 0.493 +0.007
157  Angola 0.484 +0.010
158  Timor-Leste 0.483 -0.003
159  Togo 0.479 +0.003
160  Gambia 0.471 +0.002
161  Benin 0.459 +0.007
162  Malawi 0.457 +0.009
163  Zambia 0.453 +0.006
164  Eritrea 0.442
165  Rwanda 0.435 +0.005
166  Côte d'Ivoire 0.431 -0.001
Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
167  Guinea 0.423 +0.006
168  Mali 0.391 +0.007
169  Ethiopia 0.389 +0.010
170  Chad 0.389 -0.001
171  Guinea-Bissau 0.383 +0.005
172  Burundi 0.382 +0.012
173  Burkina Faso 0.372 +0.010
174  Niger 0.370 +0.007
175  Mozambique 0.366 +0.005
176  Liberia 0.364 +0.007
177  Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.361 +0.003
178  Central African Republic 0.352 +0.003
179  Sierra Leone 0.329 +0.006

[edit] List of countries by continents

[edit] Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
High
1  Libya 0.840 +0.004
2  Seychelles 0.836 +0.002
3  Mauritius 0.802 +0.005
Medium
4  Tunisia 0.762 +0.006
5  Algeria 0.748 +0.003
6  Gabon 0.729 +0.002
7  Equatorial Guinea 0.717 -0.002
8  Egypt 0.716 +0.004
9  Cape Verde 0.705 +0.008
10  South Africa 0.670 -0.001

10 lowest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
Low
1  Sierra Leone 0.329 +0.006
2  Central African Republic 0.352 +0.003
3  Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.361 +0.003
4  Liberia 0.364 +0.007
5  Mozambique 0.366 +0.005
6  Niger 0.370 +0.007
7  Burkina Faso 0.372 +0.010
8  Burundi 0.382 +0.012
9  Guinea-Bissau 0.383 +0.005
10  Chad 0.389 -0.001

[edit] Americas

10 highest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
High
1  Canada 0.967 +0.002
2  United States 0.950
3  Barbados 0.889 +0.002
4  Chile 0.874 +0.003
5  Argentina 0.860 +0.006
6  Uruguay 0.859 +0.005
7  Cuba 0.855 +0.017
8  Bahamas 0.854 +0.002
9  Costa Rica 0.847 +0.004
10  Mexico 0.842 +0.005

10 lowest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
Medium
1  Haiti 0.521 +0.006
2  Guatemala 0.696 +0.006
3  Nicaragua 0.699 +0.006
4  Honduras 0.714 +0.006
5  Bolivia 0.723 +0.005
6  Guyana 0.725 +0.004
7  El Salvador 0.747 +0.002
8  Paraguay 0.752 +0.003
9  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.766 +0.004
10  Dominican Republic 0.768 +0.007

[edit] Asia & Oceania

10 highest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
High
1  Australia 0.965 +0.002
2  Japan 0.956 +0.003
3  New Zealand 0.944 +0.001
4  Hong Kong (SAR) 0.942 +0.004
5  Israel 0.930 +0.003
6  South Korea 0.928 +0.006
7  Brunei 0.919 +0.002
8  Singapore 0.918 +0.002
9  Kuwait 0.912 -0.003
10  United Arab Emirates 0.903 +0.002

10 lowest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
Low
1  Timor-Leste 0.483 -0.003
Medium
2  Papua New Guinea 0.516 +0.002
3  Bangladesh 0.524 +0.007
4  Nepal 0.530 +0.009
5  Pakistan 0.562 +0.014
6  Yemen 0.567 +0.006
7  Cambodia 0.575 +0.009
8  Burma 0.585 +0.004
9  Solomon Islands 0.591 +0.003
10  Laos 0.608 +0.007

[edit] Europe

10 highest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
High
1  Iceland 0.968 +0.001
2  Norway 0.968 +0.001
3  Ireland 0.960 +0.002
4  Netherlands 0.958 +0.002
5  Sweden 0.958 +0.001
6  Luxembourg 0.956 +0.002
7  Switzerland 0.955 +0.002
8  France 0.955 +0.002
9  Finland 0.954 +0.004
10  Denmark 0.952 +0.003

10 lowest HDIs

Rank Country HDI
2006 data Change compared to 2005 data
Medium
1  Moldova 0.719 +0.005
2  Ukraine 0.786 +0.006
High
3  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.802 +0.005
4  Russia 0.806 +0.005
5  Albania 0.807 +0.004
6  Republic of Macedonia 0.808 +0.003
7  Belarus 0.817 +0.007
8  Serbia 0.821 +0.004
9  Montenegro 0.822 +0.006
10  Romania 0.825 +0.008

[edit] HDI by regions & groups

Rank Region or Group HDI
High
1 High-income OECD 0.950
2 OECD 0.925
3 Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS 0.814
4 Latin America and the Caribbean 0.810
Medium
5 East Asia and the Pacific 0.762
World 0.747
6 Arab states 0.713
7 Developing countries 0.688
8 South Asia 0.606
Low
9 Sub-Saharan Africa 0.495
10 Least Developed Countries 0.480
Group HDI
High Human Development 0.901
Medium Human Development 0.690
Low Human Development 0.444
High income 0.942
Middle income 0.774
Low income 0.564

[edit] Countries missing from latest report

[edit] UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year Country HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
1997 N/A  Liechtenstein 0.946 [citation needed]
1997 N/A  Monaco 0.946 [citation needed]
1997 N/A  Andorra 0.944 [citation needed]
1997 N/A  San Marino 0.944 [citation needed]
1998 N/A  Palau 0.861 [citation needed]
1998 1995  North Korea 0.766 75 [4]
1998 N/A  Nauru 0.663 [citation needed]
2000 1998  Iraq 0.583 126 [5]
Year Country HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
1998 N/A  Tuvalu 0.583 [citation needed]
1998 N/A  Micronesia 0.569 [citation needed]
1998 N/A  Marshall Islands 0.563 [citation needed]
1998 N/A  Kiribati 0.515 [citation needed]
2007 2005  Zimbabwe 0.513 151 [6]
2007 N/A  Afghanistan 0.345 174 [7]

[nb 3]

2001 2001  Somalia 0.284 161 [8][nb 4]

[edit] Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)

Year Country or Territory HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
1998 N/A  Puerto Rico 0.942 N/A [9]
2007 2005  China, Republic of (Taiwan) 0.932 23 [nb 5]
2008 2005  Martinique 0.929 24 [11]
1998 N/A  Greenland 0.927 N/A [12]
2008 2005  Guadeloupe 0.912 28 [11]
Year Country or Territory HDI Rank Source
Publication Data
2006 2004  Macau 0.909 28 [13]
2008 2005  New Caledonia 0.878 34 [11]
2007 2004  Réunion 0.870 35 [14]
2008 2005  French Polynesia 0.864 42 [11]
2008 2005  French Guiana 0.862 43 [11]
2004 2002  Kosovo 0.733 N/A [15]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b As published in United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report "Human Development Indices - A statistical update 2008"; Table 1 "Human development index trends" 2006 and 2005 values are used, as these are the revised values rather than those originally published as shown in Appendix A1.
  2. ^ Includes data for mainland China; excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), the Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  3. ^ Afghanistan's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
  4. ^ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
  5. ^ As the UN does not recognize the Republic of China (ROC) as a state, the HDI report does not include data for "Taiwan, Province of China" (the term used by the UN to refer to the domain of the Republic of China; see Political status of Taiwan). The ROC's government calculated its HDI as of 2005 to be 0.932 based on the following data: life expectancy of 77.4 years; adult literacy rate of 97.3%; combined gross enrollment rate of 100%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$28,552.[10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/reports/. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  2. ^ "New UN data shows progress in human development". United Nations Development Programme. 18 December 2008. http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/news/title,15493,en.html. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  3. ^ a b "Human development indices". United Nations Development Programme. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDI_2008_EN_Tables.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  4. ^ "The State of Human Development" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 1998. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1998_en_chap1.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  5. ^ "Human Development Report 2000" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2000. 163. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2000_EN.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  6. ^ "Human Development Report 2007/2008" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2008. 231. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  7. ^ "Afghanistan Human Development Report 2007" (PDF). Centre for Policy and Human Development, Kabul University & United Nations Development Programme. 2007. 20. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/nationalreports/asiathepacific/afghanistan/nhdr2007.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  8. ^ "Human Development Report: Somalia 2001" (PDF). 2001. 198. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/nationalreports/africa/somalia/Somalia_2001_en.pdf. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  9. ^ "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. http://islands.unep.ch/CSV.htm. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  10. ^ "National Statistics, R.O.C. (Taiwan)" (in Chinese) (PDF). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.. 2006. http://www.stat.gov.tw/public/Data/712121616871.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-02-24. 
  11. ^ a b c d e "Les défis de la croissance calédonienne, on page 13" (in French) (PDF). CEROM - INSEE. http://www.cerom-outremer.org/jahia/webdav/site/cerom/users/admin_cerom/public/Pdf/BilanmacroNC2008.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-12-10. 
  12. ^ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. http://islands.unep.ch/CTP.htm. Retrieved on 26 March 2009. 
  13. ^ The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI as of 2004 as 0.909. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2004, Macau would rank 28th (behind Slovenia and in front of Portugal). "2006 Macao in Figures" (in English). Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2006. http://www.dsec.gov.mo/english/indicator/e_mn_indicator.html. Retrieved on 2006-11-02. 
  14. ^ "L’Indice de Développement Humain : Une Évaluation pour la réunion" (in French) (PDF). Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD) Université du Sud Toulon-Var. http://www.regionetdeveloppement.u-3mrs.fr/pdf/R27/Goujon.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-12-10. 
  15. ^ "Human Development Report - Kosovo 2004" (in English, Albanian and Serbian). UNDP. 2004. http://mirror.undp.org/kosovo/HDR/hdr.htm. Retrieved on 2009-01-11. 

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