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The HDI measures countries' achievements in health, education, and standard of living, showing a global upward trend but recent declines due to COVID-19. Countries with high HDI scores, like Switzerland and Norway, exhibit stable governments, quality education and healthcare, and strong economies.
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19 de abr. de 2024 · The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions.
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.
RankΔHdi Value10.9672(1)30.9594(2)The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, a good education, and a decent standard of living. Higher values indicate higher human development.
- The Human Development Index
- The Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index
- The Gender Development Index
- The Augmented Human Development Index
- What Can We Learn from These Indices?
The Human Development Index is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).2It is the most well-known index of human development. It is based on the idea that human development means that people have long and healthy lives, are knowledgeable, and have a decent standard of living. More specifically, these three dimensions are measur...
The UNDP also publishes the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI).7 It uses the same three principles of human development as the HDI: living a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable, and having enough income to maintain a decent standard of living. However, the IHDI acknowledges that life expectancy, education, and income differ w...
The UNDP also publishes the Gender Development Index (GDI).9 It characterizes human development like the HDI and the IHDI, but it acknowledges that life expectancy, expected and average access to education, and incomediffer between men and women. It uses gender-specific data across three dimensions (such as incomes for men and women) to calculate H...
The Augmented Human Development Index (AHDI) is produced by the economic historian Leandro Prados de la Escosura.11 It gives a more historical perspective on human development by including long-run data.12 Like the HDI, the AHDI characterizes human development as people having long and healthy lives, being knowledgeable, and having a decent standar...
Whether the Human Development Index and related measures are helpful to better understand human development will depend on the questions we want to answer. If we want a general overview of people’s health, education, and living standards, we can learn much from this data. The indices are particularly useful for identifying countries with better or ...
- Max Roser
- 2014
14 de mar. de 2022 · Access and explore human development data for 193 countries and territories worldwide.
15 de dez. de 2020 · Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in GDP as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people in each country have the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they value.
