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Human development indices
 
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Human development indices
Te human development indices provide anassessment o country achievements in dierentareas o human development. Where possible thetables include data or 192 UN member statesalong with Hong Kong, Special AdministrativeRegion o China, and the Occupied Palestinianerritories. Because o insucient cross-nation-ally comparable data o good quality, the HDIhas only been calculated or 177 UN membercountries plus the two areas mentioned.In the tables, countries and areas are rankedby their HDI value. o locate a country in thetables, reer to the
 Key to countries
on the in-side back cover where countries with their HDIranks are listed alphabetically. Most o the datain the tables are or 2006 and are those avail-able to the Human Development Report Oce(HDRO) as o 28 November 2008, unlessotherwise specied.
Sources and defnitions
HDRO is primarily a user, not a producer, o statistics. It relies on international data agencies with the mandate, resources and expertise tocollect and compile international data on spe-cic statistical indicators. Sources or all dataused in compiling the indicator tables are givenin short citations at the end o each table. Tesecorrespond to ull reerences in the
 Reerences
. Inorder to ensure that all calculations can be easilyreplicated the source notes also show the origi-nal data components used in any calculationsby HDRO. Indicators or which short, mean-ingul denitions can be given are included in
 Denitions o statistical terms
. Other relevantinormation appears in the notes at the end o each table. For more detailed technical inorma-tion about these indicators, please consult therelevant websites o the source agencies throughthe
 Human Development Report 
website athttp://hdr.undp.org/statistics/
Inconsistencies between nationaland international estimates
 When compiling international data series, inter-national data agencies ofen apply internationalstandards and harmonization procedures toimprove comparability across countries. Wheninternational data are based on national statis-tics, as they usually are, national data may needto be adjusted. When data or a country aremissing, an international agency may producean estimate i other relevant inormation canbe used. And because o the diculties in coor-dination between national and internationaldata agencies, international data series may notincorporate the most recent national data. Allthese actors can lead to substantial dierencesbetween national and international estimates. When data inconsistencies have arisen,HDRO has helped to link national and inter-national data authorities to address those incon-sistencies. In many cases this has led to betterstatistics becoming available. HDRO continuesto advocate improving international data and plays an active role in supporting eorts to en-hance data quality. It works with national agen-cies and international bodies to improve dataconsistency through more systematic reporting and monitoring o data quality.
Country classifcations
Countries are classied in our ways: by humandevelopment level, by income, by major worldaggregates and by region. Tese designations do
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PCEparty

Gonzalo, la realización y datación de estas tablas siempre se hace así, quizás por tener una confección muy laboriosa. La ONU utiliza los diferentes datos, ya verificados, de años pasados y así se hace constar en esas cifras, pero la tabla es la editada y fechada para el 2008 y salió en 2009. Puedes verlo en la dirección de la ONU http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDI_2008... Para ver los datos de este año (2008) quizás tengas que esperar hasta más allá del 2010 y cuando salga la tabla tendrá la fecha del año anterior al de su publicación. Un saludo

reply05 / 19 / 2009
gonzalo2712

ESTO NO ES DEL 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reply05 / 13 / 2009
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