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Human Development Index (HDI) score

Name: Human Development Index (HDI) score
Creator: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, development, wellbeing, education, life expectancy, income, UNDP, HDI

UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) by country (2022). Composite measure of health, education, and living standards on a 0–1 scale.

Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)•170 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.7(index)

Median: 0.7(index)

Countries Covered

170

with available data

Highest

Switzerland

1.0(index)

Lowest

South Sudan

0.4(index)

Top 5 Countries

1Switzerland1.0(index)

2Norway1.0(index)

3Albania1.0(index)

4Iceland1.0(index)

5Netherlands1.0(index)

By Region

Oceania0.9(index)(2 countries)

Europe0.9(index)(32 countries)

North America0.8(index)(4 countries)

South America0.8(index)(7 countries)

Asia0.8(index)(25 countries)

Key Findings

•The 2022 HDI spans a wide range (about 0.394 to 0.967), reflecting large cross-country gaps in combined health, education, and living standards.
•Nordic and Western European countries, along with Switzerland, Australia, and Singapore, sit near the top of the distribution.
•Several countries remain below ~0.55, indicating persistent deficits across multiple human development dimensions rather than income alone.
•Many upper-middle HDI countries cluster between ~0.70 and ~0.85, where incremental gains often depend on education quality and health outcomes as much as income growth.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.4(index))High (1.0(index))

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.7(index))

Oceania (2)

Europe (32)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Asia (25)

Africa (9)

Other (91)

About This Statistic

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a widely used composite indicator published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that summarizes a country’s average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a decent standard of living.

HDI is reported on a 0–1 scale (higher is better) and is calculated from (1) life expectancy at birth, (2) education (expected years of schooling and mean years of schooling), and (3) gross national income (GNI) per capita (PPP, log-transformed). It’s useful for comparing overall development outcomes beyond income alone, and it underpins UNDP’s classifications (Very High/High/Medium/Low human development).

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Switzerland	1.0(index)
2	Norway	1.0(index)
3	Albania	1.0(index)
4	Iceland	1.0(index)
5	Netherlands	1.0(index)
6	Australia	1.0(index)
7	Belgium	1.0(index)
8	Denmark	0.9(index)
9	Sweden	0.9(index)
10	Ireland	0.9(index)
11	Germany	0.9(index)
12	Argentina	0.9(index)
13	Finland	0.9(index)
14	United Kingdom	0.9(index)
15	Singapore	0.9(index)
16	New Zealand	0.9(index)
17	Canada	0.9(index)
18	Luxembourg	0.9(index)
19	South Korea	0.9(index)
20	United States of America	0.9(index)
21	Japan	0.9(index)
22	Israel	0.9(index)
23	Slovenia	0.9(index)
24	United Arab Emirates	0.9(index)
25	France	0.9(index)
26	Cyprus	0.9(index)
27	Italy	0.9(index)
28	Spain	0.9(index)
29	Austria	0.9(index)
30	Estonia	0.9(index)
31	Czech Republic	0.9(index)
32	Greece	0.9(index)
33	Poland	0.9(index)
34	Latvia	0.9(index)
35	Lithuania	0.9(index)
36	Croatia	0.9(index)
37	Saudi Arabia	0.9(index)
38	Bahrain	0.9(index)
39	Portugal	0.9(index)
40	Slovakia	0.9(index)
41	Chile	0.9(index)
42	Qatar	0.9(index)
43	Türkiye	0.9(index)
44	Hungary	0.9(index)
45	Botswana	0.8(index)
46	Kuwait	0.8(index)
47	Uruguay	0.8(index)
48	Romania	0.8(index)
49	Russian Federation	0.8(index)
50	Barbados	0.8(index)
51	Oman	0.8(index)
52	Georgia	0.8(index)
53	Trinidad and Tobago	0.8(index)
54	Belarus	0.8(index)
55	Malaysia	0.8(index)
56	Panama	0.8(index)
57	Serbia	0.8(index)
58	Mauritius	0.8(index)
59	Thailand	0.8(index)
60	Kazakhstan	0.8(index)
61	Montenegro	0.8(index)
62	Samoa	0.8(index)
63	Angola	0.8(index)
64	People's Republic of China	0.8(index)
65	Sri Lanka	0.8(index)
66	Armenia	0.8(index)
67	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.8(index)
68	Costa Rica	0.8(index)
69	Mexico	0.8(index)
70	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.8(index)
71	Bulgaria	0.8(index)
72	Ukraine	0.8(index)
73	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.8(index)
74	Dominican Republic	0.8(index)
75	Moldova, Republic of	0.8(index)
76	Cuba	0.8(index)
77	Peru	0.8(index)
78	Afghanistan	0.8(index)
79	Brazil	0.8(index)
80	Colombia	0.8(index)
81	Turkmenistan	0.7(index)
82	Algeria	0.7(index)
83	Mongolia	0.7(index)
84	Ecuador	0.7(index)
85	Jordan	0.7(index)
86	Lebanon	0.7(index)
87	Jamaica	0.7(index)
88	Tunisia	0.7(index)
89	Paraguay	0.7(index)
90	Egypt	0.7(index)
91	Uzbekistan	0.7(index)
92	Vietnam	0.7(index)
93	Libya	0.7(index)
94	South Africa	0.7(index)
95	Solomon Islands	0.7(index)
96	Guyana	0.7(index)
97	Indonesia	0.7(index)
98	Eswatini	0.7(index)
99	Philippines	0.7(index)
100	Suriname	0.7(index)
101	Central African Republic	0.7(index)
102	Belize	0.7(index)
103	Kyrgyzstan	0.7(index)
104	Bhutan	0.7(index)
105	Vanuatu	0.7(index)
106	Bolivia	0.7(index)
107	Venezuela	0.7(index)
108	Iraq	0.7(index)
109	Malta	0.7(index)
110	Morocco	0.7(index)
111	Tajikistan	0.7(index)
112	El Salvador	0.7(index)
113	Bangladesh	0.7(index)
114	Nicaragua	0.7(index)
115	India	0.6(index)
116	New Caledonia	0.6(index)
117	Cape Verde	0.6(index)
118	Ghana	0.6(index)
119	Guatemala	0.6(index)
120	Honduras	0.6(index)
121	Namibia	0.6(index)
122	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.6(index)
123	Timor-Leste	0.6(index)
124	Nepal	0.6(index)
125	Kenya	0.6(index)
126	Cambodia	0.6(index)
127	Zambia	0.6(index)
128	Myanmar	0.6(index)
129	Brunei Darussalam	0.6(index)
130	Syrian Arab Republic	0.6(index)
131	Zimbabwe	0.6(index)
132	Cameroon	0.6(index)
133	Republic of the Congo	0.6(index)
134	Equatorial Guinea	0.6(index)
135	Papua New Guinea	0.6(index)
136	Benin	0.6(index)
137	Mauritania	0.6(index)
138	Fiji	0.6(index)
139	Cote d'Ivoire	0.6(index)
140	Uganda	0.6(index)
141	Djibouti	0.5(index)
142	United Republic of Tanzania	0.5(index)
143	Chad	0.5(index)
144	Nigeria	0.5(index)
145	Pakistan	0.5(index)
146	Togo	0.5(index)
147	Haiti	0.5(index)
148	Comoros	0.5(index)
149	Rwanda	0.5(index)
150	Sudan	0.5(index)
151	Guinea-Bissau	0.5(index)
152	Senegal	0.5(index)
153	Lesotho	0.5(index)
154	Malawi	0.5(index)
155	Madagascar	0.5(index)
156	Republic of The Gambia	0.5(index)
157	Ethiopia	0.5(index)
158	Eritrea	0.5(index)
159	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.5(index)
160	Sierra Leone	0.5(index)
161	Guinea	0.5(index)
162	Yemen	0.5(index)
163	Liberia	0.5(index)
164	Mozambique	0.5(index)
165	Burkina Faso	0.4(index)
166	Mali	0.4(index)
167	Burundi	0.4(index)
168	Somalia	0.4(index)
169	Niger	0.4(index)
170	South Sudan	0.4(index)

Showing 170 of 170 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #development #wellbeing #education #life expectancy #income #UNDP #HDI

Data Source

This data comes from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2022).

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