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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.
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- ▲ = 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]
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[edit] List of countries by continents
[edit] Africa
10 highest HDIs
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10 lowest HDIs
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[edit] Americas
10 highest HDIs
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10 lowest HDIs
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[edit] Asia & Oceania
10 highest HDIs
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10 lowest HDIs
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[edit] Europe
10 highest HDIs
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10 lowest HDIs
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[edit] HDI by regions & groups
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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 |
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[edit] Countries missing from latest report
[edit] UN member states (latest UNDP data)
[edit] Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Includes data for mainland China; excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), the Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- ^ Afghanistan's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
- ^ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
- ^ 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]
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- ^ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/reports/. Retrieved on 26 March 2009.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. http://islands.unep.ch/CSV.htm. Retrieved on 26 March 2009.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. http://islands.unep.ch/CTP.htm. Retrieved on 26 March 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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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