Table 1: Human Development Index and its components

HDI rank

1
2
3
4
5
6
6
8
9
9
11
12
13
14
14
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
32

Country
VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Norway
Australia
Switzerland
Denmark
Netherlands
Germany
Ireland
United States
Canada
New Zealand
Singapore
Hong Kong, China (SAR)
Liechtenstein
Sweden
United Kingdom
Iceland
Korea (Republic of)
Israel
Luxembourg
Japan
Belgium
France
Austria
Finland
Slovenia
Spain
Italy
Czech Republic
Greece
Estonia
Brunei Darussalam
Cyprus
Qatar

Human
Development
Index (HDI)

Life expectancy
at birth

Value

(years)

2014

2014

0.944
0.935
0.930
0.923
0.922
0.916
0.916
0.915
0.913
0.913
0.912
0.910
0.908
0.907
0.907
0.899
0.898
0.894
0.892
0.891
0.890
0.888
0.885
0.883
0.880
0.876
0.873
0.870
0.865
0.861
0.856
0.850
0.850

81.6
82.4
83.0
80.2
81.6
80.9
80.9
79.1
82.0
81.8
83.0
84.0
80.0
82.2
80.7
82.6
81.9
82.4
81.7
83.5
80.8
82.2
81.4
80.8
80.4
82.6
83.1
78.6
80.9
76.8
78.8
80.2
78.2

34
35
36
37
37
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
50
52
52
52
55
56
57
58
59
60
60
62
63
64
64
66
67
67
69
69
71
72
73
74
75

Andorra
Slovakia
Poland
Lithuania
Malta
Saudi Arabia
Argentina
United Arab Emirates
Chile
Portugal
Hungary
Bahrain
Latvia
Croatia
Kuwait
Montenegro
HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Belarus
Russian Federation
Oman
Romania
Uruguay
Bahamas
Kazakhstan
Barbados
Antigua and Barbuda
Bulgaria
Palau
Panama
Malaysia
Mauritius
Seychelles
Trinidad and Tobago
Serbia
Cuba
Lebanon
Costa Rica
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Turkey
Sri Lanka
Mexico
Brazil

0.845
0.844
0.843
0.839
0.839
0.837
0.836
0.835
0.832
0.830
0.828
0.824
0.819
0.818
0.816
0.802

81.3
76.3
77.4
73.3
80.6
74.3
76.3
77.0
81.7
80.9
75.2
76.6
74.2
77.3
74.4
76.2

0.798
0.798
0.793
0.793
0.793
0.790
0.788
0.785
0.783
0.782
0.780
0.780
0.779
0.777
0.772
0.772
0.771
0.769
0.769
0.766
0.766
0.762
0.761
0.757
0.756
0.755

71.3
70.1
76.8
74.7
77.2
75.4
69.4
75.6
76.1
74.2
72.7
77.6
74.7
74.4
73.1
70.4
74.9
79.4
79.3
79.4
75.4
74.2
75.3
74.9
76.8
74.5

76
77
78
79
80
81
81
83
84
85
85
85
88
89
90
90
90
93
94
94
96
97
97
99
100
101
101
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
110
112
113
114
115
116

Georgia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Azerbaijan
Grenada
Jordan
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedon
Ukraine
Algeria
Peru
Albania
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ecuador
Saint Lucia
China
Fiji
Mongolia
Thailand
Dominica
Libya
Tunisia
Colombia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Jamaica
Tonga
Belize
Dominican Republic
Suriname
Maldives
Samoa
MEDIUM HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Botswana
Moldova (Republic of)
Egypt
Turkmenistan
Gabon
Indonesia
Paraguay
Palestine, State of
Uzbekistan
Philippines
El Salvador

0.754
0.752
0.751
0.750
0.748
0.747
0.747
0.736
0.734
0.733
0.733
0.733
0.732
0.729
0.727
0.727
0.727
0.726
0.724
0.724
0.721
0.720
0.720
0.719
0.717
0.715
0.715
0.714
0.706
0.702

74.9
73.8
70.8
73.4
74.0
75.4
71.0
74.8
74.6
77.8
74.7
76.5
75.9
75.1
75.8
70.0
69.4
74.4
77.8
71.6
74.8
74.0
72.9
75.7
72.8
70.0
73.5
71.1
76.8
73.4

0.698
0.693
0.690
0.688
0.684
0.684
0.679
0.677
0.675
0.668
0.666

64.5
71.6
71.1
65.6
64.4
68.9
72.9
72.9
68.4
68.2
73.0

116
116
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
126
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
134
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
143
145
145
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
156

South Africa
Viet Nam
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Kyrgyzstan
Iraq
Cabo Verde
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Guyana
Nicaragua
Morocco
Namibia
Guatemala
Tajikistan
India
Honduras
Bhutan
Timor-Leste
Syrian Arab Republic
Vanuatu
Congo
Kiribati
Equatorial Guinea
Zambia
Ghana
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Bangladesh
Cambodia
Sao Tome and Principe
LOW HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Kenya
Nepal
Pakistan
Myanmar
Angola
Swaziland
Tanzania (United Republic of)
Nigeria
Cameroon
Madagascar
Zimbabwe
Mauritania
Solomon Islands

0.666
0.666
0.662
0.655
0.654
0.646
0.640
0.636
0.631
0.628
0.628
0.627
0.624
0.609
0.606
0.605
0.595
0.594
0.594
0.591
0.590
0.587
0.586
0.579
0.575
0.570
0.555
0.555

57.4
75.8
68.3
70.6
69.4
73.3
69.1
66.4
74.9
74.0
64.8
71.8
69.4
68.0
73.1
69.5
68.2
69.6
71.9
62.3
66.0
57.6
60.1
61.4
66.2
71.6
68.4
66.5

0.548
0.548
0.538
0.536
0.532
0.531
0.521
0.514
0.512
0.510
0.509
0.506
0.506

61.6
69.6
66.2
65.9
52.3
49.0
65.0
52.8
55.5
65.1
57.5
63.1
67.9

158
159
160
161
162
163
163
163
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188

Papua New Guinea

Comoros
Yemen
Lesotho
Togo
Haiti
Rwanda
Uganda
Benin
Sudan
Djibouti
South Sudan
Senegal
Afghanistan
Cte d'Ivoire
Malawi
Ethiopia
Gambia
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
Liberia
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Mozambique
Sierra Leone
Guinea
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Chad
Eritrea
Central African Republic
Niger
OTHER COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of)
Marshall Islands
Monaco
Nauru
San Marino
Somalia
Tuvalu
Human development groups
Very high human development
High human development

0.505
0.503
0.498
0.497
0.484
0.483
0.483
0.483
0.480
0.479
0.470
0.467
0.466
0.465
0.462
0.445
0.442
0.441
0.433
0.430
0.420
0.419
0.416
0.413
0.411
0.402
0.400
0.392
0.391
0.350
0.348

62.6
63.3
63.8
49.8
59.7
62.8
64.2
58.5
59.6
63.5
62.0
55.7
66.5
60.4
51.5
62.8
64.1
60.2
58.7
60.9
55.2
58.0
55.1
50.9
58.8
58.7
56.7
51.6
63.7
50.7
61.4

..
..
..
..
..
..
..

70.3
..
..
..
..
55.4
..

0.896
0.744

80.5
75.1

Medium human development

Low human development

0.630
0.505

68.6
60.6

Developing countries

0.660

69.8

Regions
Arab States
East Asia and the Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa

0.686
0.710
0.748
0.748
0.607
0.518

70.6
74.0
72.3
75.0
68.4
58.5

Least developed countries

Small island developing states

0.502
0.660

63.3
70.1

Organisation for Economic Co-operati

0.880

80.2

World

0.711

71.5

Notes
a. Data refer to 2014 or the most recent year available.
b. Based on Barro and Lee (2013b).
c. For the purpose of calculating the HDI value, expected years of schooling is capped at 18 years.
d. Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015) and Barro and Lee (201
e. Based on Barro and Lee (2014).
f. Based on data from the national statistical office.
g. For the purpose of calculating the HDI value, GNI per capita is capped at $75,000.
h. Value from UNDESA (2011).
i. Calculated as the average of mean years of schooling for Austria and Switzerland.
j. Estimated using the purchasing power parity (PPP) rate and projected growth rate of Switzerland.
k. HDRO estimate based on data from World Bank (2015a) and United Nations Statistics Division (2015).
l. Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015).
m. Assumes the same adult mean years of schooling as Spain.
n. Estimated using the PPP rate and projected growth rate of Spain.
o. Based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2011).
p. Based on data on school life expectancy from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013).
q. Based on data from United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for 20
r. Based on cross-country regression.

s. The 2013 HDI value published in the 2014 Human Development Report was based on miscalculated G
realistic value, based on the model developed by HDRO and verified and accepted by Cubas National St
69th.
t. Based on a cross-country regression model and projected growth rates from ECLAC (2014).
Brazil (2013).
x. Based on projected growth rates from UNESCWA (2014).
v. Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015) and a UNICEF Multiple I

w. Based on data on school life expectancy from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012).
y. Based on data from ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys for 20052014.
z. Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015), an ICF Macro Demogra
aa. Updated by HDRO based on data from a UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.
ab. Based on data from Timor-Leste Ministry of Finance (2015).
Definitions

Human Development Index (HDI): A composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dim
standard of living. See Technical note 1 at http://hdr.undp.org/en for details on how the HDI is calculated.
Life expectancy at birth: Number of years a newborn infant could expect to live if prevailing patterns of a
life.

Expected years of schooling: Number of years of schooling that a child of school entrance age can exp
the childs life.

Mean years of schooling: Average number of years of education received by people ages 25 and older,
Gross national income (GNI) per capita: Aggregate income of an economy generated by its production
factors of production owned by the rest of the world, converted to international dollars using PPP rates, di

Main data sources

Column 1: HDRO calculations based on data from UNDESA (2015), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (201
(2014) and IMF (2015).
Column 2: UNDESA (2015).
Column 3: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015).
Column 4: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2015), Barro and Lee (2014), UNICEF Multiple Indicator Clust
Column 5: World Bank (2015a), IMF (2015) and United Nations Statistics Division (2015).
Column 6: Calculated based on data in columns 1 and 5.

Expected years
of schooling

Mean years of
schooling

Gross national
income (GNI) per
capita

(years)

(years)

(2011 PPP $)

2014
17.5
20.2
15.8
18.7
17.9
16.5
18.6
16.5
15.9
19.2
15.4
15.6
15.0
15.8
16.2
19.0
16.9
16.0
13.9
15.3
16.3
16.0
15.7
17.1
16.8
17.3
16.0
16.4
17.6
16.5
14.5
14.0
13.8

c
f

GNI per capita

rank minus HDI
rank

2014

2014

2014

12.6
13.0
12.8
12.7
11.9
13.1
12.2
12.9
13.0
12.5
10.6
11.2
11.8
12.1
13.1
10.6
11.9
12.5
11.7
11.5
11.3
11.1
10.8
10.3
11.9
9.6
10.1
12.3
10.3
12.5
8.8
11.6
9.1

64,992
42,261
56,431
44,025
45,435
43,919
39,568
52,947
42,155
32,689
76,628
53,959
79,851
45,636
39,267
35,182
33,890
30,676
58,711
36,927
41,187
38,056
43,869
38,695
27,852
32,045
33,030
26,660
24,524
25,214
72,570
28,633
123,124

5
17
6
11
9
11
16
3
11
23
-7
-2
-10
-1
9
12
13
16
-11
7
0
4
-5
0
12
7
4
10
14
12
-26
3
-31

d
e

b
e

d
e
e

e
d

d
e

e
e

g,j

13.5
15.1
15.5
16.4
14.4
16.3
17.9
13.3
15.2
16.3
15.4
14.4
15.2
14.8
14.7
15.2
15.7
14.7
13.6
14.2
15.5
12.6
15.0
15.4
14.0
14.4
13.7
13.3
12.7
15.6
13.4
12.3
14.4
13.8
13.8
13.9
15.1
14.2
14.5
13.7
13.1
15.2

9.6
12.2
11.8
12.4
10.3
8.7
9.8
9.5
9.8
8.2
11.6
9.4
11.5
11.0
7.2
11.2

12.0
12.0
8.0
10.8
8.5
10.9
11.4
10.5
9.2
10.6
12.3
9.3
10.0
8.5
9.4
10.9
10.5
11.5
7.9
8.4
8.2
8.9
7.6
10.8
8.5
7.7

d
d
d

d
b
d

e
q
r
d
f

q
l

e
d

43,978
25,845
23,177
24,500
27,930
52,821
22,050
60,868
21,290
25,757
22,916
38,599
22,281
19,409
83,961
14,558
16,676
22,352
34,858
18,108
19,283
21,336
20,867
12,488
20,070
15,596
13,496
18,192
22,762
17,470
23,300
26,090
12,190
7,301
16,509
13,413
15,440
16,159
18,677
9,779
16,056
15,175

-18
5
10
7
-1
-27
11
-34
11
-2
3
-20
4
11
-46
27
14
-1
-23
10
7
-3
-1
27
-1
13
18
1
-14
0
-19
-25
20

47
-1
10
4
-2
-12
29
-4
-1

13.8
12.9
11.9
15.8
13.5
13.4
15.1
14.0
13.1
11.8
12.3
13.6
14.2
12.6
13.1
15.7
14.6
13.5
12.7
14.0
14.6
13.5
13.4
12.4
14.7
13.6
13.1
12.7
13.0
12.9
12.5
11.9
13.5
10.8
12.5
13.0
11.9
13.0
11.5
11.3
12.3

w
l

l
l
f

12.1
8.4
11.2
8.6
9.9
9.3
11.3
7.6
9.0
9.3
10.9
8.3
7.6
9.3
7.5
9.9
9.3
7.3
7.9
7.3
6.8
7.3
8.6
9.7
10.7
10.5
7.6
7.7
5.8
10.3

8.9
11.2
6.6
9.9
7.8
7.6
7.7
8.9
10.9
8.9
6.5

r
l
r

q
e

e
v

q
b

r
e
q
d
r
e
e

y
z
f

e
r
y
z
b

aa
d

7,164
20,805
16,428
10,939
11,365
11,780
8,178
13,054
11,015
9,943
8,124
9,638
10,605
9,765
12,547
7,493
10,729
13,323
9,994
14,911
10,404
12,040
9,937
7,415
5,069
7,614
11,883
15,617
12,328
5,327
16,646
5,223
10,512
13,066
16,367
9,788
7,643
4,699
5,567
7,915
7,349

40
-21
-11
14
11
9
25
-1
8
14
22
19
7
14
-7
21
4
-13
4
k,x

-19
1
-9
3
13
32
9
-12
-32
-19
24
-41
23
-12
-28
-42
-9
-3

21
10
-7
-3

13.6
11.9
13.2
12.5
10.1
13.5
11.7
10.3
11.5
11.6
11.3
10.7
11.2
11.7
11.1
12.6
11.7
12.3
10.6
11.1
12.3
9.0
13.5
11.5
10.6
10.0
10.9
11.3
11.0
12.4
7.8
8.6
11.4
11.3
9.2
9.0
10.4
10.3
10.9
8.5
9.2

9.9
7.5
8.2
10.6
6.4
4.7
9.7
8.5
6.0
4.4
6.2
5.6
10.4
5.4
5.5
3.0
4.4
6.3
6.8
6.1
7.8
5.5
6.6
7.0
5.0
5.1
4.4
4.7
6.3
3.3
4.7
4.1
4.7
7.1
5.1
5.9
6.0
6.0
7.3
3.8
5.0

e
r
f
e
e
b
e

y
e

q
y
e
aa
b
r
y
e

q
e
y
y

b
e

e
y
b
e
y
e
q
e
e
f

12,122
5,092
5,760
3,044
14,003
6,094
3,432
6,522
4,457
6,850
9,418
6,929
2,517
5,497
3,938
7,176
5,363
2,728
2,803
6,012
2,434
21,056
3,734
3,852
4,680
3,191
2,949
2,918
2,762
2,311
4,866
4,608
6,822
5,542
2,411
5,341
2,803
1,328
1,615
3,560
1,540

-29
15
4
29
-44
-1
21
-4
12
-8
-21
-11
27
-4
7
-17
ab

-6

k,x

21
19
-14
21
-84
2
-1
-6
5
7
8

9
16
-14
-12
-30
-25
8
-24
-1
24
13
-14
16

9.9
11.5
9.2
11.1
12.2
8.7
10.3
9.8
11.1
7.0
6.4
7.6
7.9
9.3
8.9
10.8
8.5
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and Barro and Lee (2014).

te of Switzerland.
atistics Division (2015).

r Cluster Surveys for 20052014.

sed on miscalculated GNI per capita in 2011 PPP dollars, as published in the World Bank (2014). A more
d by Cubas National Statistics Office, is $7,222. The corresponding 2013 HDI value is 0.759 and the rank is

LAC (2014).

nd a UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.

an ICF Macro Demographic and Health Survey and Barro and Lee (2014).

ement in three basic dimensions of human developmenta long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent
w the HDI is calculated.
prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality rates at the time of birth stay the same throughout the infants

l entrance age can expect to receive if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout

ople ages 25 and older, converted from education attainment levels using official durations of each level.
erated by its production and its ownership of factors of production, less the incomes paid for the use of
ars using PPP rates, divided by midyear population.

titute for Statistics (2015), United Nations Statistics Division (2015), World Bank (2015a), Barro and Lee

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys.