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VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1 Norway 0.991 1
2 Switzerland 0.987 1
3 Australia 0.975 2
4 Ireland 0.979 1
5 Germany 0.967 2
6 Iceland 0.966 2
7 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 0.965 2
7 Sweden 0.992 1
9 Singapore 0.982 1
10 Netherlands 0.966 2
11 Denmark 0.980 1
12 Canada 0.986 1
13 United States 0.992 1
14 United Kingdom 0.960 2
15 Finland 1.000 1
16 New Zealand 0.966 2
17 Belgium 0.971 2
17 Liechtenstein .. ..
19 Japan 0.975 1
20 Austria 0.971 2
21 Luxembourg 0.969 2
22 Israel 0.975 2
22 Korea (Republic of) 0.932 3
24 France 0.987 1
25 Slovenia 1.003 1
26 Spain 0.979 1
27 Czechia 0.986 1
28 Italy 0.967 2
29 Malta 0.960 2
30 Estonia 1.019 1
31 Greece 0.964 2
32 Cyprus 0.984 1
33 Poland 1.006 1
34 United Arab Emirates 0.968 2
35 Andorra .. ..
35 Lithuania 1.026 2
37 Qatar 1.031 2
38 Slovakia 0.991 1
39 Brunei Darussalam 0.990 1
39 Saudi Arabia 0.877 5
41 Latvia 1.030 2
41 Portugal 0.983 1
43 Bahrain 0.931 3
44 Chile 0.961 2
45 Hungary 0.985 1
46 Croatia 0.991 1
47 Argentina 0.997 1
48 Oman 0.942 3
49 Russian Federation 1.019 1
50 Montenegro 0.956 2
51 Bulgaria 0.990 1
52 Romania 0.985 1
53 Belarus 1.020 1
54 Bahamas .. ..
55 Uruguay 1.014 1
56 Kuwait 0.990 1
57 Malaysia 0.976 1
58 Barbados 1.015 1
58 Kazakhstan 1.007 1
HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
60 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.871 5
60 Palau .. ..
62 Seychelles .. ..
63 Costa Rica 0.974 2
64 Turkey 0.922 4
65 Mauritius 0.968 2
66 Panama 0.988 1
67 Serbia 0.976 1
68 Albania 0.970 2
69 Trinidad and Tobago 1.013 1
70 Antigua and Barbuda .. ..
70 Georgia 0.975 1
72 Saint Kitts and Nevis .. ..
73 Cuba 0.942 3
74 Mexico 0.954 2
75 Grenada .. ..
76 Sri Lanka 0.935 3
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.924 4
78 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1.011 1
79 Brazil 0.992 1
80 Azerbaijan 0.949 3
80 Lebanon 0.889 5
80 The former Yugoslav Republic of M 0.946 3
83 Armenia 0.969 2
83 Thailand 0.996 1
85 Algeria 0.861 5
86 China 0.955 2
86 Ecuador 0.978 1
88 Ukraine 0.993 1
89 Peru 0.950 3
90 Colombia 0.997 1
90 Saint Lucia 0.993 1
92 Fiji .. ..
92 Mongolia 1.023 1
94 Dominican Republic 0.989 1
95 Jordan 0.857 5
95 Tunisia 0.897 5
97 Jamaica 0.988 1
98 Tonga 0.960 2
99 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .. ..
100 Suriname 0.975 2
101 Botswana 0.976 1
101 Maldives 0.919 4
103 Dominica .. ..
104 Samoa .. ..
105 Uzbekistan 0.945 3
106 Belize 0.979 1
106 Marshall Islands .. ..
108 Libya 0.929 3
108 Turkmenistan .. ..
110 Gabon 0.911 4
110 Paraguay 0.972 2
112 Moldova (Republic of) 1.005 1
MEDIUM HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
113 Philippines 1.000 1
113 South Africa 0.984 1
115 Egypt 0.872 5
116 Indonesia 0.932 3
116 Viet Nam 1.005 1
118 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0.929 3
119 Palestine, State of 0.877 5
120 Iraq 0.823 5
121 El Salvador 0.969 2
122 Kyrgyzstan 0.960 2
123 Morocco 0.838 5
124 Nicaragua 0.966 2
125 Cabo Verde 0.949 3
125 Guyana 0.948 3
127 Guatemala 0.948 3
127 Tajikistan 0.933 3
129 Namibia 1.014 1
130 India 0.841 5
131 Micronesia (Federated States of) .. ..
132 Timor-Leste 0.855 5
133 Honduras 0.978 1
134 Bhutan 0.893 5
134 Kiribati .. ..
136 Bangladesh 0.881 5
137 Congo 0.934 3
138 Vanuatu .. ..
139 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.934 3
140 Ghana 0.910 4
141 Equatorial Guinea .. ..
142 Kenya 0.931 3
143 Sao Tome and Principe 0.892 5
144 Eswatini (Kingdom of) 0.943 3
144 Zambia 0.941 3
146 Cambodia 0.914 4
147 Angola .. ..
148 Myanmar 0.959 2
149 Nepal 0.925 4
150 Pakistan 0.750 5
151 Cameroon 0.866 5
LOW HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
152 Solomon Islands .. ..
153 Papua New Guinea .. ..
154 Tanzania (United Republic of) 0.928 3
155 Syrian Arab Republic 0.788 5
156 Zimbabwe 0.924 4
157 Nigeria 0.868 5
158 Rwanda 0.941 3
159 Lesotho 1.004 1
159 Mauritania 0.845 5
161 Madagascar 0.962 2
162 Uganda 0.865 5
163 Benin 0.875 5
164 Senegal 0.911 4
165 Comoros 0.876 5
165 Togo 0.822 5
167 Sudan 0.831 5
168 Afghanistan 0.625 5
168 Haiti .. ..
170 Côte d'Ivoire 0.841 5
171 Malawi 0.936 3
172 Djibouti .. ..
173 Ethiopia 0.846 5
174 Gambia 0.890 5
175 Guinea 0.810 5
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 0.852 5
177 Guinea-Bissau .. ..
178 Yemen 0.425 5
179 Eritrea .. ..
180 Mozambique 0.904 4
181 Liberia 0.846 5
182 Mali 0.811 5
183 Burkina Faso 0.870 5
184 Sierra Leone 0.872 5
185 Burundi 1.002 1
186 Chad 0.775 5
187 South Sudan 0.826 5
188 Central African Republic 0.780 5
189 Niger 0.812 5
OTHER COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of .. ..
Monaco .. ..
Nauru .. ..
San Marino .. ..
Somalia .. ..
Tuvalu .. ..
Regions
Arab States 0.855 —
East Asia and the Pacific 0.957 —
Europe and Central Asia 0.956 —
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.977 —
South Asia 0.837 —
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.893 —
World 0.941 —
Notes
a. Because disaggregated income data are not available, data are crudely estimated. See Definitions and
b. Countries are divided into five groups by absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI values.
c. Data refer to 2017 or the most recent year available.
d. In calculating the HDI value, expected years of schooling is capped at 18 years.
e. In calculating the male HDI value, estimated gross national income per capita is capped at $75,000.
f. Based on data from OECD (2017a).
g. Based on data from national statistical office.
h. Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018).
i. Based on Barro and Lee (2016).
j. Updated by HDRO using Barro and Lee (2016) estimates.
k. Based on data from United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for 200
l. Based on cross-country regression.
m. Updated by HDRO based on data from ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys for 2006-2017.
n. Updated by HDRO based on Syrian Center for Policy Research (2017).
Definitions
Gender Development Index: Ratio of female to male HDI values. See Technical note 3 at http://hdr.undp
Gender Development Index groups: Countries are divided into five groups by absolute deviation from ge
Human Development Index (HDI): A composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dim
Life expectancy at birth: Number of years a newborn infant could expect to live if prevailing patterns of a
Expected years of schooling: Number of years of schooling that a child of school entrance age can expe
Mean years of schooling: Average number of years of education received by people ages 25 and older,
Estimated gross national income per capita: Derived from the ratio of female to male wages, female an
Human Development Index (HDI) Life expectancy at birth Expected years of schooling
.. .. .. .. 13.4
0.894 0.917 87.1 80.7 15.2
0.893 0.920 84.1 79.4 16.4
0.888 0.916 84.1 79.8 14.1
0.890 0.913 84.3 80.9 16.5
0.866 0.929 85.3 79.2 15.9
0.894 0.906 85.6 79.8 16.8
0.898 0.895 83.9 78.3 18.0
0.879 0.898 86.0 80.5 18.2 d
.. .. 73.6 67.5 ..
0.750 0.733 73.7 65.4 15.9
0.728 0.736 77.3 71.0 14.5
0.658 0.767 76.3 72.8 13.4 h
.. .. .. .. ..
.. .. 78.5 72.3 12.9 g
.. .. 68.3 63.3 ..
0.517 0.557 68.1 64.6 8.6 m
.. .. 75.3 68.3 ..
.. .. .. .. ..
.. .. .. .. 10.8
.. .. .. .. 15.6
.. .. 58.4 55.1 ..
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ed at 18 years.
me per capita is capped at $75,000.
atistics (2018).
See Technical note 3 at http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2018_technical_notes.pdf for details on how the Gender Devel
ve groups by absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI values. Group 1 comprises countries with high equality in HDI achiev
average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development—a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent stand
expect to live if prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality rates at the time of birth stay the same throughout the infant’s life.
a child of school entrance age can expect to receive if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout the
received by people ages 25 and older, converted from educational attainment levels using official durations of each level.
atio of female to male wages, female and male shares of economically active population and gross national income (in 2011 pu
A (2017a), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018), Barro and Lee (2016), World Bank (2018b), ILO (2018a) and IMF (2018).
ro Demographic and Health Surveys, UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and OECD (2017a).
nd Lee (2016), ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys, UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and OECD (2017a).
DESA (2017a), World Bank (2018b) and IMF (2018).
SDG 4.3 SDG 4.6 SDG 8.5
Estimated gross national
ed years of schooling Mean years of schooling income per capita
15.1 9.7 i
9.9 i
6,094 32,017
16.5 .. .. .. ..
14.3 .. .. .. ..
14.9 8.8 8.5 10,419 18,851
15.7 7.1 8.8 15,576 34,313
14.6 9.1 i
9.5 i
12,558 27,986
12.1 10.4 i
9.9 i
13,229 25,102
14.2 10.7 11.6 10,672 15,474
14.4 9.8 10.2 9,702 14,028
12.5 l
11.0 h
10.8 h
22,008 35,435
12.6 h
.. .. .. ..
14.8 12.8 12.8 6,177 12,481
14.3 .. .. .. ..
13.7 11.6 h
12.1 h
5,001 10,045
13.8 8.4 8.8 11,065 22,873
16.3 .. .. .. ..
13.6 10.3 h
11.4 h
6,462 16,581
14.5 k
8.6 10.9 7,723 15,856
13.2 10.7 10.0 7,401 13,976
14.9 8.0 h
7.7 h
10,073 17,566
12.7 m
10.5 11.0 10,089 21,152
12.7 8.5 h
8.9 h
5,523 21,182
13.2 8.9 k
9.9 k
9,114 15,897
12.6 11.7 11.7 6,358 12,281
14.5 7.4 h
7.8 h
13,793 17,327
14.1 7.6 h
8.6 h
4,232 23,181
13.6 7.6 j
8.3 j
12,053 18,295
13.9 8.6 8.8 7,388 13,307
14.8 11.3 j
11.3 j
6,082 10,513
13.6 8.7 9.7 8,446 15,140
14.3 8.5 8.1 10,271 15,692
13.3 m
9.4 h
8.7 h
9,388 14,101
.. 10.9 i
10.7 i
5,604 10,963
15.0 10.6 9.8 8,482 11,759
13.0 8.1 7.5 8,909 18,975
12.9 h
10.1 i
10.6 i
2,459 13,971
14.4 6.4 j
7.9 j
4,537 16,152
12.8 h
10.0 h
9.5 h
5,898 9,812
14.0 l
11.2 h
11.1 h
3,769 7,314
13.1 .. .. 7,643 13,306
12.0 m
8.3 h
8.6 h
9,132 17,449
12.5 h
9.2 j
9.5 j
12,613 18,521
12.6 m
6.2 i
6.4 i
7,064 18,501
.. .. .. .. ..
12.1 g
.. .. 3,778 7,909
12.2 11.2 11.8 4,687 8,264
12.7 10.5 h
10.4 h
5,689 8,655
.. 10.7 11.1 .. ..
13.2 l
7.7 j
7.0 j
4,623 17,472
11.1 .. .. 11,240 20,083
13.4 m
7.4 m
9.1 m
11,789 20,825
12.2 8.4 8.3 6,212 10,486
11.4 11.5 11.7 4,849 6,318
12.3 9.5 h
9.2 h
7,582 10,705
13.1 9.9 10.4 9,060 14,894
13.1 6.5 i
7.9 i
4,081 16,489
12.8 7.5 8.4 7,259 14,385
12.5 k
7.9 k
8.5 k
5,345 6,383
14.0 8.2 9.7 4,686 8,737
12.0 8.9 9.3 1,802 8,216
12.0 m
5.4 h
7.8 h
6,039 29,250
12.8 6.7 7.3 5,226 8,722
13.2 10.9 m
10.8 m
2,159 4,369
12.8 4.5 i
6.5 i
3,197 11,561
11.8 6.9 i
6.4 i
3,434 6,930
12.1 5.9 6.4 4,295 7,683
11.0 8.5 k
8.4 k
4,543 10,295
10.9 6.4 h
6.5 h
4,768 9,869
11.9 10.7 i
10.2 i
2,233 4,392
12.2 m
7.2 i
6.6 i
8,895 9,907
11.9 4.8 h
8.2 h
2,722 9,729
.. .. .. .. ..
13.2 3.6 m
5.3 m
3,301 10,282
9.8 6.6 6.5 3,277 5,159
12.2 2.1 k
4.2 k
6,002 9,889
12.6 .. .. .. ..
11.3 h
5.2 j
6.7 j
2,041 5,285
11.5 5.5 j
6.7 j
4,905 6,483
11.1 l
.. .. 2,340 3,635
11.5 4.6 i
5.7 i
5,354 6,789
11.8 6.3 i
7.9 i
3,349 4,849
.. 4.0 m
7.3 m
14,869 23,258
12.5 m
5.7 i
7.1 i
2,529 3,398
12.4 5.6 h
7.1 h
1,780 4,112
11.6 6.1 k
6.9 k
5,722 9,641
13.0 m
6.5 m
7.4 m
2,986 4,138
12.2 h
3.8 i
5.6 i
2,970 3,878
12.7 m
.. .. 5,063 6,546
9.8 4.9 m
4.8 m
3,860 7,355
11.8 3.6 i
6.4 i
2,219 2,738
9.3 3.8 6.5 1,642 8,786
13.0 4.7 j
7.6 j
2,751 3,878
10.7 g
.. .. 1,450 2,281
.. 3.8 i
5.3 i
3,002 3,789
9.3 m
5.4 i
6.2 i
2,282 3,037
8.8 4.6 n
5.6 n
561 4,077
10.5 7.5 8.9 1,431 1,948
10.8 m
5.0 m
7.3 m
4,433 6,008
11.2 3.7 h
4.7 h
1,568 2,064
10.2 7.0 i
5.5 i
2,608 3,940
8.6 3.5 i
5.5 i
1,936 5,221
10.6 6.7 m
6.1 m
1,173 1,544
12.2 m
4.7 m
7.2 m
1,212 2,109
14.0 3.0 k
4.3 k
1,795 2,329
9.3 2.4 3.8 1,691 3,101
11.4 3.7 m
5.6 m
1,027 1,764
13.2 m
3.3 m
6.5 m
1,265 1,643
7.7 3.1 i
4.1 i
1,785 6,455
12.7 1.9 i
6.0 i
541 3,030
.. 4.3 m
6.6 m
1,400 1,937
10.0 4.0 i
6.2 i
2,529 4,409
10.8 4.0 i
5.1 i
897 1,235
6.7 .. .. 2,491 4,286
9.1 h
1.6 m
3.8 m
1,304 2,136
9.2 2.9 i
4.3 i
1,168 1,870
10.4 1.5 m
3.9 m
1,804 2,328
10.6 5.3 h
8.4 h
703 889
.. .. .. 1,269 1,843
10.3 h
1.9 j
4.2 j
149 2,308
5.8 .. .. 1,451 2,048
10.2 2.5 h
4.6 h
1,052 1,135
10.6 m
3.5 i
6.1 i
577 755
8.6 1.7 h
3.0 h
1,345 2,560
8.8 1.0 m
2.0 m
1,289 2,014
10.2 m
2.7 i
4.3 i
1,096 1,387
12.1 2.7 m
3.7 m
807 594
9.5 1.2 m
3.4 m
1,412 2,088
6.3 m
4.0 5.3 843 1,083
8.5 h
3.0 i
5.6 i
521 809
6.0 1.5 i
2.6 i
691 1,119
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