List of Spanish autonomous communities according to the human development index

Map of the Spanish Autonomous Communities according to HDI 2017.

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The following list sorts the autonomous communities of Spain according to their Human Development Index .

The Human Development Index is a method of calculating the level of development of a country or region. The HDI not only takes into account the gross national income per capita, but also life expectancy and the duration of training based on the number of school years a 25-year-old has completed and the expected duration of a child's education at school age. The HDI was essentially developed by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq , who worked closely with the Indian economist Amartya Sen and the British economist and politician Meghnad Desai .

Calculation method

As of the Human Development Report 2010, the three dimensions are calculated as follows:

• Life expectancy index: life expectancy at birth (LE)
• Education index: Average school attendance (DSD) and expected school attendance (VSD) in years
• Standard of living : Gross National Income (GNI) per capita (GNIpk), PPP US $

1. Life Expectancy Index (LEI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{LE}}-20}{85{,}0-20}}}$
2. Education Index (BI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{DSDI}}+{\text{VSDI}}}{2}}}$

   2.1. Average School Attendance Index (DSDI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{DSD}}-0}{15{,}0-0}}}$

   2.2. Estimated School Attendance Index (VSDI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{VSD}}-0}{18{,}0-0}}}$

3. Income Index (EI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {\ln({\text{BNEpk}})-\ln(100)}{\ln(75000)-\ln(100)}}}$

Finally, the HDI is calculated as a geometric mean from the three dimensions: ${\displaystyle {\text{HDI}}={\sqrt[{3}]{{\text{LEI}}\cdot {\text{BI}}\cdot {\text{EI}}}}.}$

LE: life expectancy at birth

DSD: Average duration of school attendance (number of years that a person aged 25 or older has attended school)

VSD: Estimated length of school attendance (number of years a 5-year-old child will likely go to school)

BNEpk: Gross national income per capita adjusted for purchasing power in US dollars

Autonomous communities according to HDI

All 17 autonomous Spanish communities and the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla according to the development of their Human Development Index from 1995 to 2015. For comparison purposes, a country with a similar Human Development Index in the same year is also given. With a value of 0.884, Spain took 27th place in the Human Development Index, making it one of the countries with a very high level of human development.

rank	Autonomous community	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	Increase in 1995-2015	Comparable country
1	Madrid	0.837	0.863	0.883	0.911	0.922	▲ 0.085	Iceland
2	Basque Country	0.830	0.856	0.877	0.903	0.915	▲ 0.085	New Zealand
3	Navarre	0.820	0.846	0.867	0.892	0.905	▲ 0.085	Japan
4th	La Rioja	0.805	0.830	0.849	0.876	0.899	▲ 0.094	Israel
5	Catalonia	0.810	0.836	0.852	0.875	0.897	▲ 0.087	France
6th	Aragon	0.802	0.827	0.849	0.874	0.889	▲ 0.087	Slovenia
7th	Castile and León	0.812	0.837	0.854	0.879	0.888	▲ 0.076	Italy
8th	Asturias	0.791	0.816	0.838	0.863	0.882	▲ 0.091	Czech Republic
9	Galicia	0.791	0.815	0.837	0.863	0.880	▲ 0.089	Czech Republic
	Cantabria	0.797	0.822	0.843	0.865	0.880	▲ 0.083	Czech Republic
11	Valencia	0.793	0.818	0.836	0.858	0.875	▲ 0.082	Czech Republic
12	Murcia	0.784	0.808	0.825	0.847	0.863	▲ 0.079	Estonia
13	Canary Islands	0.776	0.800	0.819	0.840	0.855	▲ 0.079	Cyprus
14th	Andalusia	0.777	0.801	0.819	0.841	0.853	▲ 0.076	Poland
	Balearic Islands	0.777	0.801	0.817	0.834	0.853	▲ 0.076	Poland
16	Castile-La Mancha	0.774	0.798	0.816	0.842	0.852	▲ 0.078	Poland
17th	Extremadura	0.767	0.791	0.808	0.833	0.847	▲ 0.080	Chile
18th	Ceuta	0.766	0.791	0.807	0.819	0.846	▲ 0.080	Slovakia
19th	Melilla	0.763	0.788	0.807	0.821	0.827	▲ 0.064	Croatia
	Spain	0.800	0.825	0.844	0.868	0.884	▲ 0.084	Spain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDR_2013_EN_TechNotes (PDF) Page 2.
2. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 4, 2018 .