List of countries by Human Development Index

This is a list of countries by Human Development Index as included in the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report 2007/2008, compiled on the basis of 2005 data and published on November 27, 2007. It covers 175 U.N. member countries (out of 192), along with: Hong Kong (SAR of China) and PA-governed territories. 17 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]

Countries fall into three broad categories based on their HDI: high, medium, and low human development.

Complete list of countries

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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.

High

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
1	(1)	Iceland	0.968
2	(1)	Norway	0.968
3	(0)	Australia	0.962
4	(2)	Canada	0.961
5	(1)	Ireland	0.959
6	(1)	Sweden	0.956
7	(2)	Switzerland	0.955
8	(1)	Japan	0.953
9	(1)	Netherlands	0.953
10	(6)	France	0.952
11	(0)	Finland	0.952
12	(4)	United States	0.951
13	(6)	Spain	0.949
14	(1)	Denmark	0.949
15	(1)	Austria	0.948
16	(2)	United Kingdom	0.946
17	(4)	Belgium	0.946
18	(6)	Luxembourg	0.944
19	(1)	New Zealand	0.943
20	(3)	Italy	0.941
21	(1)	Hong Kong	0.937
22	(1)	Germany	0.935
23	(0)	Israel	0.932
24	(0)	Greece	0.926
25	(0)	Singapore	0.922
26	(0)	South Korea	0.921
27	(0)	Slovenia	0.917
28	(1)	Cyprus	0.903
29	(1)	Portugal	0.897
30	(4)	Brunei	0.894
31	(0)	Barbados	0.892
32	(2)	Czech Republic	0.891
33	(0)	Kuwait	0.891
34	(2)	Malta	0.878
35	(11)	Qatar	0.875

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
36	(1)	Hungary	0.874
37	(0)	Poland	0.870
38	(2)	Argentina	0.869
39	(10)	United Arab Emirates	0.868
40	(2)	Chile	0.867
41	(2)	Bahrain	0.866
42	(0)	Slovakia	0.863
43	(2)	Lithuania	0.862
44	(4)	Estonia	0.860
45	(0)	Latvia	0.855
46	(3)	Uruguay	0.852
47	(3)	Croatia	0.850
48	(0)	Costa Rica	0.846
49	(3)	Bahamas	0.845
50	(3)	Seychelles	0.843
51	(1)	Cuba	0.838
52	(1)	Mexico	0.829
53	(1)	Bulgaria	0.824
54	(3)	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.821
55	(0)	Tonga	0.819
56	(8)	Libya	0.818
57	(2)	Antigua and Barbuda	0.815
58	(2)	Oman	0.814
59	(2)	Trinidad and Tobago	0.814
60	(0)	Romania	0.813
61	(15)	Saudi Arabia	0.812
62	(4)	Panama	0.812
63	(2)	Malaysia	0.811
64	(3)	Belarus	0.804
65	(2)	Mauritius	0.804
66	(4)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.803
67	(2)	Russia	0.802
68	(5)	Albania	0.801
69	(3)	Macedonia	0.801
70	(1)	Brazil	0.800

Medium

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
71	(3)	Dominica	0.798
72	(1)	Saint Lucia	0.795
73	(6)	Kazakhstan	0.794
74	(2)	Venezuela	0.792
75	(5)	Colombia	0.791
76	(1)	Ukraine	0.788
77	(2)	Samoa	0.785
78	(4)	Thailand	0.781
79	(15)	Dominican Republic	0.779
80	(15)	Belize	0.778
81	(0)	China^[2]	0.777
82	(3)	Grenada	0.777
83	(3)	Armenia	0.775
84	(8)	Turkey	0.775
85	(4)	Suriname	0.774
86	(0)	Jordan	0.773
87	(5)	Peru	0.773
88	(10)	Lebanon	0.772
89	(6)	Ecuador	0.772
90	(6)	Philippines	0.771
91	(4)	Tunisia	0.766
92	(2)	Fiji	0.762
93	(5)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.761
94	(2)	Iran	0.759
95	(4)	Paraguay	0.755
96	(1)	Georgia	0.754
97	(6)	Guyana	0.750
98	(1)	Azerbaijan	0.746
99	(6)	Sri Lanka	0.743
100	(2)	Maldives	0.741
101	(3)	Jamaica	0.736
102	(4)	Cape Verde	0.736
103	(2)	El Salvador	0.735
104	(2)	Algeria	0.733
105	(4)	Vietnam	0.733
106	(6)	Palestinian National Authority	0.731
107	(1)	Indonesia	0.728
108	(1)	Syria	0.724
109	(4)	Turkmenistan	0.713
110	(2)	Nicaragua	0.710
111	(3)	Moldova	0.708
112	(1)	Egypt	0.708

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
113	(0)	Uzbekistan	0.702
114	(2)	Mongolia	0.700
115	(2)	Honduras	0.700
116	(6)	Kyrgyzstan	0.696
117	(2)	Bolivia	0.695
118	(0)	Guatemala	0.689
119	(5)	Gabon	0.677
120	(1)	Vanuatu	0.674
121	(0)	South Africa	0.674
122	(0)	Tajikistan	0.673
123	(4)	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.654
124	(7)	Botswana	0.654
125	(0)	Namibia	0.650
126	(3)	Morocco	0.646
127	(7)	Equatorial Guinea	0.642
128	(2)	India	0.619
129	(1)	Solomon Islands	0.602
130	(3)	Laos	0.601
131	(2)	Cambodia	0.598
132	(2)	Myanmar	0.583
133	(2)	Bhutan	0.579
134	(2)	Comoros	0.561
135	(1)	Ghana	0.553
136	(2)	Pakistan	0.551
137	(16)	Mauritania	0.550
138	(11)	Lesotho	0.549
139	(1)	Congo^[3]	0.548
140	(3)	Bangladesh	0.547
141	(5)	Swaziland	0.547
142	(4)	Nepal	0.534
143	(0)	Madagascar	0.533
144	(0)	Cameroon	0.532
145	(6)	Papua New Guinea	0.530
146	(8)	Haiti	0.529
147	(6)	Sudan	0.526
148	(4)	Kenya	0.521
149	(1)	Djibouti	0.516
150	(8)	East Timor	0.514
151	(0)	Zimbabwe	0.513
152	(5)	Togo	0.512
153	(3)	Yemen	0.508
154	(9)	Uganda	0.505
155	(0)	Gambia	0.502

Low

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
156	(0)	Senegal	0.499
157	(0)	Eritrea	0.483
158	(1)	Nigeria	0.470
159	(3)	Tanzania	0.467
160	(0)	Guinea	0.456
161	(3)	Rwanda	0.452
162	(1)	Angola	0.446
163	(0)	Benin	0.437
164	(2)	Malawi	0.437
165	(0)	Zambia	0.434
166	(2)	Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)	0.432

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
167	(2)	Burundi	0.413
168	(1)	DR Congo^[4]	0.411
169	(1)	Ethiopia	0.406
170	(1)	Chad	0.388
171	(1)	Central African Republic	0.384
172	(4)	Mozambique	0.384
173	(2)	Mali	0.380
174	(3)	Niger	0.374
175	(2)	Guinea-Bissau	0.374
176	(2)	Burkina Faso	0.370
177	(1)	Sierra Leone	0.336

Not calculated by the UN

Country	HDI	Year of publication
Republic of China (Taiwan)^[5]	0.925	2006 (compiled on the basis of 2004 data)
Macau SAR, China^[6]	0.909	2006 (compiled on the basis of 2004 data)
Montenegro^[7]	0.799	2005 (compiled on the basis of 2004 data)

List of countries by Continents

Americas

10 highest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
High
1	(0)	Canada	0.961
2	(0)	United States	0.951
3	(0)	Barbados	0.892
4	(0)	Argentina	0.869
5	(0)	Chile	0.867
6	(0)	Uruguay	0.852
7	(0)	Costa Rica	0.846
8	(2)	Bahamas	0.845
9	(1)	Cuba	0.838
10	(1)	Mexico	0.829

10 lowest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
Medium
1	(0)	Haiti	0.529
2	(0)	Guatemala	0.689
3	(1)	Bolivia	0.695
4	(1)	Honduras	0.700
5	(0)	Nicaragua	0.710
6	(2)	El Salvador	0.735
7	(1)	Jamaica	0.736
8	(1)	Guyana	0.750
9	(2)	Paraguay	0.755
10	(2)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.761

Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
High
1	(0)	Seychelles	0.843
2	(1)	Libya	0.818
3	(1)	Mauritius	0.804
Medium
4	(0)	Tunisia	0.766
5	(1)	Cape Verde	0.736
6	(1)	Algeria	0.733
7	(0)	Egypt	0.708
8	(3)	Gabon	0.677
9	(0)	South Africa	0.674
10	(3)	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.654

10 lowest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
Low
1	(1)	Sierra Leone	0.336
2	(2)	Burkina Faso	0.370
3	(2)	Guinea-Bissau	0.374
4	(3)	Niger	0.374
5	(2)	Mali	0.380
6	(4)	Mozambique	0.384
7	(1)	Central African Republic	0.384
8	(1)	Chad	0.388
9	(1)	Ethiopia	0.406
10	(1)	DR Congo	0.411

Asia and Pacific

10 highest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
High
1	(0)	Australia	0.962
2	(0)	Japan	0.953
3	(0)	New Zealand	0.943
4	(0)	Hong Kong	0.937
5	(0)	Israel	0.932
6	(0)	Singapore	0.922
7	(0)	South Korea	0.921
8	(1)	Brunei	0.894
9	(1)	Kuwait	0.891
10	(4)	Qatar	0.875

10 lowest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
Medium
1	(0)	Yemen	0.508
2	(0)	East Timor	0.514
3	(0)	Papua New Guinea	0.530
4	(0)	Nepal	0.534
5	(0)	Bangladesh	0.547
6	(1)	Pakistan	0.551
7	(1)	Bhutan	0.579
8	(1)	Myanmar	0.583
9	(1)	Cambodia	0.598
10	(2)	Laos	0.601

Europe

10 highest HDIs

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
High
1	(1)	Iceland	0.968
2	(1)	Norway	0.968
3	(0)	Ireland	0.959
4	(0)	Sweden	0.956
5	(0)	Switzerland	0.955
6	(0)	Netherlands	0.953
7	(5)	France	0.952
8	(1)	Finland	0.952
9	(6)	Spain	0.949
10	(1)	Denmark	0.949

10 lowest HDIs^[8]

Rank		Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Country	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
Medium
1	(0)	Moldova	0.708
2	(0)	Ukraine	0.788
High
3	(2)	Macedonia	0.801
4	(1)	Albania	0.801
5	(2)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.803
6	(2)	Belarus	0.804
7	(1)	Romania	0.813
8	(1)	Bulgaria	0.824
9	(2)	Croatia	0.850
10	(0)	Latvia	0.855

HDI by Regions & Groups

Rank		Region or Group	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Region or Group	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
High HDI
1	(0)	OECD	0.916
2	(0)	Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS	0.808
3	(0)	Latin America and the Caribbean	0.803
Medium HDI
4	(0)	East Asia and the Pacific	0.771
-	-	World	0.743
5	(0)	ASEAN	0.708
6	(0)	Arab states	0.699
7	(0)	Developing countries	0.691
8	(0)	South Asia	0.611
Low HDI
9	(0)	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.493
10	(0)	Least Developed Countries	0.488

Rank		Group	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
2005 data (published in 2007)	Change compared to 2004 data (published in 2006)	Group	HDI in 2005 (published in 2007)
-	-	High Human Development	0.897
-	-	Medium Human Development	0.698
-	-	Low Human Development	0.436
-	-	High income	0.936
-	-	Middle income	0.776
-	-	Low income	0.570

Unavailable data

Year		Country	HDI in the UN last report
2005 (published in 2007)	Year of the last country report	Country	HDI in the UN last report
-	(1997)	Monaco	0.946
-	(1997)	Liechtenstein	0.946
-	(1997)	Andorra	0.944
-	(1997)	San Marino	0.944
-	(1998)	Puerto Rico	0.942
-	(1998)	Greenland	0.927
-	(1998)	Palau	0.861
-	(1995)	North Korea	0.766
-	(1998)	Nauru	0.663

Year		Country	HDI in the UN last report
2005 (published in 2007)	Year of the last country report	Country	HDI in the UN last report
-	(1998)	Tuvalu	0.583
-	(1998)	Micronesia	0.569
-	(1999)	Iraq	0.567
-	(1998)	Marshall Islands	0.563
-	(1998)	Kiribati	0.515
-	(1993)	Liberia	0.311
-	(1993)	Afghanistan	0.229
-	(1993)	Somalia	0.221
-	-	Vatican City	—

Notes

^ "About HDRO". United Nations Development Program. 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-30.
^ Includes data for mainland People's Republic of China; excludes Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
^ Also known as Congo-Brazzaville and previously simply as Congo.
^ Also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
^ 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 2004 to be 0.925 based on the following data: life expectancy of 77.5 years; adult literacy rate of 97.2%; combined gross enrollment rate of 99%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$26,241. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2004, the ROC would rank 24th (behind Israel and in front of Greece). "National Statistics, R.O.C. (Taiwan)" (PDF) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. 2004. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
^ 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 25th (behind Greece and in front of Singapore). "2006 Macao in Figures". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
^ The Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (ISSP), in Podgorica, issued a study on Montenegro in collaboration with the UNDP. "Human development report for Montenegro".
^ This list includes territories located wholly in Europe, including Belarus (which is not a member of the Council of Europe). This list does not include Asian members of the council of Europe, e.g. Armenia, nor transcontinental territories - located partly in Asia, e.g. Kazakhstan (which is not a member of the Council of Europe), Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, and Turkey (members of the Council of Europe).

References

"Human Development Report 2007/2008" (PDF). United Nations Development Program. 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-27.

External links

Archive of previous global reports.

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[1] "About HDRO". United Nations Development Program. 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-30.

[2] Includes data for mainland People's Republic of China; excludes Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

[3] Also known as Congo-Brazzaville and previously simply as Congo.

[4] Also known as Congo-Kinshasa.

[5] 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 2004 to be 0.925 based on the following data: life expectancy of 77.5 years; adult literacy rate of 97.2%; combined gross enrollment rate of 99%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$26,241. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2004, the ROC would rank 24th (behind Israel and in front of Greece). "National Statistics, R.O.C. (Taiwan)" (PDF) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. 2004. Retrieved 2007-01-16.

[6] 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 25th (behind Greece and in front of Singapore). "2006 Macao in Figures". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-02.

[7] The Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (ISSP), in Podgorica, issued a study on Montenegro in collaboration with the UNDP. "Human development report for Montenegro".

[8] This list includes territories located wholly in Europe, including Belarus (which is not a member of the Council of Europe). This list does not include Asian members of the council of Europe, e.g. Armenia, nor transcontinental territories - located partly in Asia, e.g. Kazakhstan (which is not a member of the Council of Europe), Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, and Turkey (members of the Council of Europe).

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Complete list of countries

High

Medium

Low

Not calculated by the UN

List of countries by Continents

Americas

Africa

Asia and Pacific

Europe

HDI by Regions & Groups

Unavailable data

Notes

See also

References

External links