List of countries by Human Development Index

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This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped.-Summary:...

as included in a United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report

Human development (humanity)

In the scope of humanity, human development is an international and economic development paradigm.-Scope of human development:Human development is a development paradigm that is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes...

 released on October 5, 2009, compiled on the basis of data from 2007. It covers 180 UN member states

United Nations member states

There are currently 192 United Nations member states, and each of them is a member of the United Nations General Assembly.According to the United Nations Charter, Chapter II, Article 4:...

 (out of 192), along with: Hong Kong (SAR of China)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

 and PA-governed territories

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined. The territories, which were originally contained within the British Mandate of Palestine, were captured and occupied by Jordan and by Egypt in the...

. Twelve UN member states 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

Life expectancy

Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by e_x, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...

, literacy

Literacy

Literacy is a concept claimed and defined by a range of different theoretical fields. In everyday terms, "literacy" is typically described as the ability to read and write...

, education

Education

Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual...

 and standards of living

Standard of living

Standard of living is generally measured by standards such as real income per person and poverty rate. Other measures such as access and quality of health care, income growth inequality and educational standards are also used. Examples are access to certain goods , or measures of health such as...

 for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare

Child welfare

Child protection is used to describe a set of usually government-run services designed to protect children and young people who are 18 or under and encourage family stability...

. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed

Developed country

The term developed country is used to describe countries that have a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue and there is fierce debate about this. Economic criteria have tended to dominate...

, a developing

Developing country

Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being. There is no single internationally-recognized definition of developed country, and the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries, with some developing...

 or an under-developed country

Least Developed Countries

Least Developed Countries are countries which according to the United Nations exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world...

, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located at the crossroads of South Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia...

i economist

Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq , born in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was an influential and world renowned Pakistani economist. He is the pioneer of Human development theory and founder of the Human Development Report...

 and India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

n economist Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH , is an Indian Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics-winning economist, and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge...

.

Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high (added in the report for 2007), high (split in the same report), medium and low human development. Starting in the report for 2007, the first category is referred as developed countries

Developed country

The term developed country is used to describe countries that have a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue and there is fierce debate about this. Economic criteria have tended to dominate...

, and the last three are all grouped in developing countries

Developing country

Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being. There is no single internationally-recognized definition of developed country, and the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries, with some developing...

.

Some older groupings (high/medium/low income countries) have been removed that were based on the gross national income

Gross National Income

Gross national income ' comprises the total value produced within a country , together with its income received from other countries , less similar payments made to other countries....

 (GNI) in purchasing power parity

Purchasing power parity

The purchasing power parity theory uses the long-term equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize their purchasing power...

 (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross domestic product

Gross domestic product

The gross domestic product or gross domestic income is a basic measure of a country's economic performance and is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year...

 (GDP) in purchasing power parity per capita.

Complete list of countries

= increase. = steady. = decrease.

• 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.
• The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down) since the 2005 survey.

Note: This revision of the index was released on December 18, 2008. This so-called "statistical update" covers the period up to 2006 and was published without an accompanying report on human development. The update is relevant due to newly released estimates of purchasing power parities

Purchasing power parity

The purchasing power parity theory uses the long-term equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize their purchasing power...

 (PPP), implying substantial adjustments for many countries, resulting in changes in HDI values and, in many cases, HDI ranks.

Very high human development (Developed Countries)

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data As published in United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report "Human Development Indices - A statistical update 2008"; Table 1 "Human development index trends" 2006 and 2005 values are used, as these are the revised values rather than those originally published as shown in Appendix A1.	Change compared to 2006 data
1	{{increase}} (1)	Norway	0.971	{{Increase}} 0.001
2	{{increase}} (2)	Australia	0.970	{{Increase}} 0.002
3	{{decrease}} (2)	Iceland	0.969	{{Increase}} 0.002
4	{{decrease}} (1)	Canada	0.966	{{Increase}} 0.001
5	{{steady}}	Ireland	0.965	{{Increase}} 0.001
6	{{steady}}	Netherlands	0.964	{{Increase}} 0.003
7	{{steady}}	Sweden	0.963	{{Increase}} 0.002
8	{{increase}} (3)	France	0.961	{{Increase}} 0.003
9	{{increase}} (1)	Switzerland	0.960	{{Increase}} 0.001
10	{{decrease}} (2)	Japan	0.960	{{Increase}} 0.002
11	{{decrease}} (2)	Luxembourg	0.960	{{Increase}} 0.001
12	{{steady}}	Finland	0.959	{{Increase}} 0.004
13	{{increase}} (2)	United States	0.956	{{Increase}} 0.001
14	{{steady}}	Austria	0.955	{{Increase}} 0.003
15	{{increase}} (1)	Spain	0.955	{{Increase}} 0.003
16	{{decrease}} (2)	Denmark	0.955	{{Increase}} 0.002
17	{{steady}}	Belgium	0.953	{{Increase}} 0.002
18	{{increase}} (1)	Italy	0.951	{{Increase}} 0.001
19	{{N/A}}	Liechtenstein	0.951	{{Increase}} 0.001

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
20	{{steady}}	New Zealand	0.950	{{Increase}} 0.002
21	{{steady}}	United Kingdom	0.947	{{Increase}} 0.002
22	{{increase}} (1)	Germany	0.947	{{Increase}} 0.002
23	{{increase}} (5)	Singapore	0.944	{{Increase}} 0.002
24	{{decrease}} (2)	Hong Kong	0.944	{{Increase}} 0.001
25	{{decrease}} (7)	Greece	0.942	{{Increase}} 0.004
26	{{decrease}} (1)	South Korea	0.937	{{Increase}} 0.004
27	{{decrease}} (3)	Israel	0.935	{{Increase}} 0.003
28	{{steady}}	Andorra	0.934	{{Increase}} 0.001
29	{{decrease}} (3)	Slovenia	0.929	{{Increase}} 0.005
30	{{decrease}} (3)	Brunei	0.920	{{Increase}} 0.001
31	{{decrease}} (2)	Kuwait	0.916	{{Increase}} 0.004
32	{{decrease}} (2)	Cyprus	0.914	{{Increase}} 0.003
33	{{increase}} (1)	Qatar	0.910	{{Increase}} 0.005
34	{{decrease}} (1)	Portugal	0.909	{{Increase}} 0.002
35	{{decrease}} (4)	United Arab Emirates	0.903	{{Increase}} 0.007
36	{{decrease}} (1)	Czech Republic	0.903	{{Increase}} 0.004
37	{{steady}}	Barbados	0.903	{{Increase}} 0.004
38	{{decrease}} (2)	Malta	0.902	{{Increase}} 0.003

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High human development (Developing Countries)

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
39	{{decrease}} (7)	Bahrain	0.895	{{Increase}} 0.001
40	{{increase}} (2)	Estonia	0.883	{{Increase}} 0.005
41	{{decrease}} (3)	Poland	0.880	{{Increase}} 0.004
42	{{decrease}} (1)	Slovakia	0.880	{{Increase}} 0.007
43	{{decrease}} (5)	Hungary	0.879	{{Increase}} 0.001
44	{{decrease}} (4)	Chile	0.878	{{Increase}} 0.004
45	{{steady}}	Croatia	0.871	{{Increase}} 0.004
46	{{decrease}} (3)	Lithuania	0.870	{{Increase}} 0.005
47	{{increase}} (12)	Antigua and Barbuda	0.868	{{Increase}} 0.008
48	{{decrease}} (4)	Latvia	0.866	{{Increase}} 0.007
49	{{decrease}} (3)	Argentina	0.866	{{Increase}} 0.005
50	{{decrease}} (3)	Uruguay	0.865	{{Increase}} 0.005
51	{{decrease}} (3)	Cuba	0.863	{{Increase}} 0.007
52	{{decrease}} (6)	Bahamas	0.856	{{Increase}} 0.002
53	{{decrease}} (2)	Mexico	0.854	{{Increase}} 0.005
54	{{decrease}} (4)	Costa Rica	0.854	{{Increase}} 0.005
55	{{decrease}} (3)	Libya	0.847	{{Increase}} 0.005
56	{{decrease}} (3)	Oman	0.846	{{Increase}} 0.003
57	{{decrease}} (3)	Seychelles	0.845	{{Increase}} 0.004
58	{{increase}} (3)	Venezuela	0.844	{{Increase}} 0.011
59	{{decrease}} (4)	Saudi Arabia	0.843	{{Increase}} 0.003
60	{{decrease}} (2)	Panama	0.840	{{Increase}} 0.007
61	{{decrease}} (5)	Bulgaria	0.840	{{Increase}} 0.005

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
62	{{decrease}} (2)	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.838	{{Increase}} 0.003
63	{{decrease}} (1)	Romania	0.837	{{Increase}} 0.005
64	{{decrease}} (8)	Trinidad and Tobago	0.837	{{Increase}} 0.005
65	{{decrease}} (1)	Montenegro	0.834	{{Increase}} 0.006
66	{{decrease}} (3)	Malaysia	0.829	{{Increase}} 0.004
67	{{decrease}} (2)	Serbia	0.826	{{Increase}} 0.005
68	{{increase}} (1)	Belarus	0.826	{{Increase}} 0.007
69	{{decrease}} (3)	Saint Lucia	0.821	{{Steady}}
70	{{decrease}} (1)	Albania	0.818	{{Increase}} 0.004
71	{{increase}} (2)	Russia	0.817	{{Increase}} 0.006
72	{{decrease}} (4)	Macedonia	0.817	{{Increase}} 0.004
73	{{increase}} (4)	Dominica	0.814	{{Steady}}
74	{{increase}} (12)	Grenada	0.813	{{Increase}} 0.003
75	{{decrease}} (5)	Brazil	0.813	{{Increase}} 0.005
76	{{decrease}} (1)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.812	{{Increase}} 0.005
77	{{increase}} (3)	Colombia	0.807	{{Increase}} 0.007
78	{{increase}} (1)	Peru	0.806	{{Increase}} 0.007
79	{{increase}} (3)	Turkey	0.806	{{Increase}} 0.004
80	{{decrease}} (8)	Ecuador	0.806	{{Increase}} 0.001
81	{{decrease}} (7)	Mauritius	0.804	{{Increase}} 0.003
82	{{decrease}} (11)	Kazakhstan	0.804	{{Increase}} 0.003
83	{{decrease}} (2)	Lebanon	0.803	{{Increase}} 0.003

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Medium human development (Developing Countries)

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
84	{{decrease}} (1)	Armenia	0.798	{{Increase}} 0.011
85	{{decrease}} (3)	Ukraine	0.796	{{Increase}} 0.007
86	{{increase}} (11)	Azerbaijan	0.787	{{Increase}} 0.014
87	{{decrease}} (6)	Thailand	0.783	{{Increase}} 0.003
88	{{decrease}} (4)	Iran	0.782	{{Increase}} 0.005
89	{{increase}} (5)	Georgia	0.778	{{Increase}} 0.010
90	{{increase}} (1)	Dominican Republic	0.777	{{Increase}} 0.006
91	{{increase}} (1)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.772	{{Increase}} 0.005
92	{{increase}} (2)	ChinaIncludes data for mainland China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population... ; excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Hong Kong Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...  (separately ranked), the Macau SAR Macau The Macau Special Administrative Region , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong...  and the Republic of China (Taiwan) Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition and jurisdiction over China into a democratic state with limited international recognition and jurisdiction only over Taiwan and minor islands, though it... .	0.772	{{Increase}} 0.009
93	{{decrease}} (5)	Belize	0.772	{{Increase}} 0.002
94	{{increase}} (2)	Samoa	0.771	{{Increase}} 0.005
95	{{increase}} (4)	Maldives	0.771	{{Increase}} 0.006
96	{{decrease}} (6)	Jordan	0.770	{{Increase}} 0.003
97	{{decrease}} (8)	Suriname	0.769	{{Increase}} 0.004
98	{{decrease}} (3)	Tunisia	0.769	{{Increase}} 0.006
99	{{decrease}} (14)	Tonga	0.768	{{Increase}} 0.001
100	{{decrease}} (13)	Jamaica	0.766	{{Decrease}} 0.002
101	{{decrease}} (3)	Paraguay	0.761	{{Increase}} 0.004
102	{{increase}} (2)	Sri Lanka	0.759	{{Increase}} 0.004
103	{{increase}} (4)	Gabon	0.755	{{Increase}} 0.005
104	{{decrease}} (4)	Algeria	0.754	{{Increase}} 0.005
105	{{decrease}} (3)	Philippines	0.751	{{Increase}} 0.004
106	{{decrease}} (5)	El Salvador	0.747	{{Increase}} 0.001
107	{{decrease}} (2)	Syria	0.742	{{Increase}} 0.004
108	{{decrease}} (5)	Fiji	0.741	{{Decrease}} 0.003
109	{{decrease}} (1)	Turkmenistan	0.739	{{Steady}}
110	{{decrease}} (4)	Palestine	0.737	{{Steady}}
111	{{decrease}} (2)	Indonesia	0.734	{{Increase}} 0.005
112	{{increase}} (5)	Honduras	0.732	{{Increase}} 0.019
113	{{decrease}} (2)	Bolivia	0.729	{{Increase}} 0.003
114	{{decrease}} (4)	Guyana	0.729	{{Increase}} 0.008
115	{{decrease}} (3)	Mongolia	0.727	{{Increase}} 0.007
116	{{decrease}} (2)	Vietnam	0.725	{{Increase}} 0.005
117	{{decrease}} (4)	Moldova	0.720	{{Increase}} 0.002
118	{{decrease}} (3)	Equatorial Guinea	0.719	{{Increase}} 0.007
119	{{steady}}	Uzbekistan	0.710	{{Increase}} 0.004
120	{{increase}} (2)	Kyrgyzstan	0.710	{{Increase}} 0.005
121	{{decrease}} (3)	Cape Verde	0.708	{{Increase}} 0.004

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
122	{{decrease}} (1)	Guatemala	0.704	{{Increase}} 0.008
123	{{decrease}} (7)	Egypt	0.703	{{Increase}} 0.003
124	{{decrease}} (4)	Nicaragua	0.699	{{Increase}} 0.003
125	{{increase}} (1)	Botswana	0.694	{{Increase}} 0.011
126	{{decrease}} (3)	Vanuatu	0.693	{{Increase}} 0.005
127	{{decrease}} (3)	Tajikistan	0.688	{{Increase}} 0.005
128	{{increase}} (1)	Namibia	0.686	{{Increase}} 0.008
129	{{decrease}} (4)	South Africa	0.683	{{Increase}} 0.003
130	{{decrease}} (3)	Morocco	0.654	{{Increase}} 0.006
131	{{decrease}} (3)	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.651	{{Increase}} 0.006
132	{{decrease}} (1)	Bhutan	0.619	{{Increase}} 0.011
133	{{steady}}	Laos	0.619	{{Increase}} 0.006
134	{{decrease}} (2)	India	0.612	{{Increase}} 0.008
135	{{decrease}} (1)	Solomon Islands	0.610	{{Increase}} 0.006
136	{{decrease}} (6)	Republic of the Congo	0.601	{{Decrease}} 0.002
137	{{decrease}} (1)	Cambodia	0.593	{{Increase}} 0.009
138	{{decrease}} (3)	Myanmar	0.586	{{Increase}} 0.002
139	{{decrease}} (2)	Comoros	0.576	{{Increase}} 0.003
140	{{decrease}} (2)	Yemen	0.575	{{Increase}} 0.007
141	{{decrease}} (2)	Pakistan	0.572	{{Increase}} 0.004
142	{{decrease}} (1)	Swaziland	0.572	{{Increase}} 0.003
143	{{increase}} (14)	Angola	0.564	{{Increase}} 0.012
144	{{increase}} (1)	Nepal	0.553	{{Increase}} 0.006
145	{{decrease}} (2)	Madagascar	0.543	{{Increase}} 0.006
146	{{increase}} (1)	Bangladesh	0.543	{{Increase}} 0.008
147	{{decrease}} (3)	Kenya	0.541	{{Increase}} 0.006
148	{{increase}} (1)	Papua New Guinea	0.541	{{Increase}} 0.005
149	{{decrease}} (3)	Haiti	0.532	{{Increase}} 0.006
150	{{decrease}} (4)	Sudan	0.531	{{Increase}} 0.005
151	{{increase}} (1)	Tanzania	0.530	{{Increase}} 0.011
152	{{decrease}} (10)	Ghana	0.526	{{Increase}} 0.008
153	{{decrease}} (3)	Cameroon	0.523	{{Increase}} 0.004
154	{{decrease}} (14)	Mauritania	0.520	{{Increase}} 0.001
155	{{decrease}} (3)	Djibouti	0.520	{{Increase}} 0.003
156	{{decrease}} (1)	Lesotho	0.514	{{Increase}} 0.003
157	{{decrease}} (1)	Uganda	0.514	{{Increase}} 0.009
158	{{decrease}} (4)	Nigeria	0.511	{{Increase}} 0.005 {{col-end}}

Low human development (Developing Countries)

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
159	{{steady}}	Togo	0.499	{{Increase}} 0.001
160	{{increase}} (2)	Malawi	0.493	{{Increase}} 0.009
161	{{steady}}	Benin	0.492	{{Increase}} 0.005
162	{{decrease}} (4)	Timor-Leste	0.489	{{Increase}} 0.005
163	{{increase}} (3)	Côte d'Ivoire	0.484	{{Increase}} 0.002
164	{{decrease}} (1)	Zambia	0.481	{{Increase}} 0.008
165	{{decrease}} (1)	Eritrea	0.472	{{Increase}} 0.005
166	{{decrease}} (13)	Senegal	0.464	{{increase}} 0.002
167	{{decrease}} (2)	Rwanda	0.460	{{Increase}} 0.005
168	{{decrease}} (8)	Gambia	0.456	{{Increase}} 0.003
169	{{increase}} (7)	Liberia	0.442	{{Increase}} 0.008
170	{{decrease}} (3)	Guinea	0.435	{{Increase}} 0.002

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Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
171	{{decrease}} (2)	Ethiopia	0.414	{{Increase}} 0.012
172	{{increase}} (3)	Mozambique	0.402	{{Increase}} 0.005
173	{{decrease}} (2)	Guinea-Bissau	0.396	{{Increase}} 0.005
174	{{decrease}} (2)	Burundi	0.394	{{Increase}} 0.007
175	{{decrease}} (5)	Chad	0.392	{{Decrease}} 0.001
176	{{increase}} (2)	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.389	{{Increase}} 0.018
177	{{decrease}} (4)	Burkina Faso	0.389	{{Increase}} 0.005
178	{{decrease}} (10)	Mali	0.371	{{Increase}} 0.005
179	{{decrease}} (1)	Central African Republic	0.369	{{Increase}} 0.002
180	{{decrease}} (1)	Sierra Leone	0.365	{{Increase}} 0.008
181	{{N/A}}	Afghanistan	0.352	{{Increase}} 0.002
182	{{decrease}} (8)	Niger	0.340	{{Increase}} 0.005 {{col-end}}

Africa

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10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
High human development
1	Libya	0.847	{{Increase}} +0.005
2	Seychelles	0.845	{{Increase}} +0.004
3	Mauritius	0.804	{{Increase}} +0.003
Medium human development
4	Tunisia	0.769	{{Increase}} +0.006
5	Gabon	0.755	{{Increase}} +0.005
6	Algeria	0.754	{{Increase}} +0.005
7	Equatorial Guinea	0.719	{{Increase}} +0.007
8	Cape Verde	0.708	{{Increase}} +0.004
9	Egypt	0.703	{{Increase}} +0.003
10	Botswana	0.694	{{Increase}} +0.011

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10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Low human development
1	Niger	0.340	{{Increase}} +0.007
2	Sierra Leone	0.365	{{Increase}} +0.008
3	Central African Republic	0.369	{{Increase}} +0.002
4	Mali	0.371	{{Increase}} +0.005
5	Burkina Faso	0.389	{{Increase}} +0.005
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.389	{{Increase}} +0.018
7	Chad	0.392	{{Decrease}} -0.001
8	Burundi	0.394	{{Increase}} +0.007
9	Guinea-Bissau	0.396	{{Increase}} +0.005
10	Mozambique	0.402	{{Increase}} +0.005

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Americas

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10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Canada	0.966	{{Increase}} +0.001
2	United States	0.956	{{Increase}} +0.001
3	Barbados	0.903	{{Increase}} +0.004
High human development
4	Chile	0.878	{{Increase}} +0.004
5	Antigua and Barbuda	0.868	{{Increase}} +0.008
6	Argentina	0.866	{{Increase}} +0.005
7	Uruguay	0.865	{{Increase}} +0.005
8	Cuba	0.863	{{Increase}} +0.007
9	Bahamas	0.856	{{Increase}} +0.002
10	Mexico	0.854	{{Increase}} +0.005

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10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Medium human development
1	Haiti	0.532	{{Increase}} +0.006
2	Nicaragua	0.699	{{Increase}} +0.003
3	Guatemala	0.704	{{Increase}} +0.008
4	Guyana	0.729	{{Increase}} +0.008
5	Bolivia	0.729	{{Increase}} +0.003
6	Honduras	0.732	{{Increase}} +0.003
7	El Salvador	0.747	{{Increase}} +0.001
8	Paraguay	0.761	{{Increase}} +0.004
9	Jamaica	0.766	{{Decrease}} -0.002
10	Suriname	0.769	{{Increase}} +0.004

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Asia & Oceania

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10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Australia	0.970	{{Increase}} +0.002
2	Japan	0.960	{{Increase}} +0.002
3	New Zealand	0.950	{{Increase}} +0.002
4	Singapore	0.944	{{Increase}} +0.002
5	Hong Kong	0.944	{{Increase}} +0.001
6	South Korea	0.937	{{Increase}} +0.004
7	Israel	0.935	{{Increase}} +0.003
8	Brunei	0.920	{{Increase}} +0.001
9	Kuwait	0.916	{{Increase}} +0.004
10	Cyprus	0.914	{{Increase}} +0.003

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10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Low human development
1	Afghanistan	0.352	{{Increase}} +0.002
2	Timor-Leste	0.489	{{Increase}} +0.005
Medium human development
3	Papua New Guinea	0.541	{{Increase}} +0.005
4	Bangladesh	0.543	{{Increase}} +0.008
5	Nepal	0.553	{{Increase}} +0.006
6	Pakistan	0.572	{{Increase}} +0.004
7	Yemen	0.575	{{Increase}} +0.007
8	Myanmar	0.586	{{Increase}} +0.002
9	Cambodia	0.593	{{Increase}} +0.009
10	Solomon Islands	0.610	{{Increase}} +0.006

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Europe

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10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Norway	0.971	{{Increase}} +0.001
2	Iceland	0.969	{{Increase}} +0.002
3	Ireland	0.965	{{Increase}} +0.001
4	Netherlands	0.964	{{Increase}} +0.003
5	Sweden	0.963	{{Increase}} +0.002
6	France	0.961	{{Increase}} +0.003
7	Switzerland	0.960	{{Increase}} +0.001
8	Luxembourg	0.960	{{Increase}} +0.001
9	Finland	0.959	{{Increase}} +0.004
10	Austria	0.955	{{Increase}} +0.003

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10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Medium human development
1	Moldova	0.720	{{Increase}} +0.002
2	Ukraine	0.796	{{Increase}} +0.007
High human development
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.812	{{Increase}} +0.005
4	Macedonia	0.817	{{Increase}} +0.004
5	Russia	0.817	{{Increase}} +0.006
6	Albania	0.818	{{Increase}} +0.004
7	Belarus	0.826	{{Increase}} +0.007
8	Serbia	0.826	{{Increase}} +0.005
9	Montenegro	0.834	{{Increase}} +0.006
10	Romania	0.837	{{Increase}} +0.005

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HDI by regions & groups

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Region or Group	HDI 2007	HDI 2005
Very high human development
European Union (EU27) European Union The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 Member States, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community...	0.937 {{Increase}}	{{N/A}}
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international organisation of 30 countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and free-market economy...	0.932 {{Increase}}	0.925
High human development
Gulf Cooperation Council	0.868 {{Increase}}	{{N/A}}
Central Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. The term and widespread interest in the region itself came back into fashion after the end of the Cold War, which, along with the Iron Curtain, had divided Europe politically into East and West,...  and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a region lying in the Eastern part of Europe. The term is highly context-dependent and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...  and the CIS Commonwealth of Independent States {{Redirect|CIS}}{{Redirect|CIS}}{{Redirect|CIS}}{{Redirect|CIS}}{{Redirect|CIS}}{{Redirect|CIS}}{{Infobox Geopolitical organisation|native_name = Commonwealth of Independent States...	0.821 {{Increase}}	0.814
Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...  and the Caribbean Caribbean The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts...	0.821 {{Increase}}	0.810
Medium human development
East Asia and the Pacific Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific or Apac is that part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The area includes much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia and Oceania)....	0.770 {{Increase}}	0.762
World World World is a highly common name for the planet Earth, but it was originally used to mean the sum of human civilization living on it, specifically human experience, history, or the 'human condition' in general....	0.753 {{Increase}}	0.743
Arab states	0.719 {{Increase}}	0.713
South Asia South Asia South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east...	0.612 {{Increase}}	0.606
Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...	0.514 {{Increase}}	0.495

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Group	Classification (2007)	HDI
		min	max	average (2007)	average (2005)
Very high human development	Developed countries Developed country The term developed country is used to describe countries that have a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue and there is fierce debate about this. Economic criteria have tended to dominate...	0.900	1.000	0.955 {{Increase}}	0.897
High human development	Developing countries Developing country Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being. There is no single internationally-recognized definition of developed country, and the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries, with some developing...	0.800	0.899	0.833 {{Increase}}
Medium human development		0.500	0.799	0.686 {{Decrease}}	0.698
Low human development		0.000	0.499	0.423 {{Decrease}}	0.436
World World World is a highly common name for the planet Earth, but it was originally used to mean the sum of human civilization living on it, specifically human experience, history, or the 'human condition' in general....	—	0.000	1.000	0.753 {{Increase}}	0.743

Older group (up to 2005)	GNI per capita (US$)		Old HDI
	min	max
High-income countries	10 726	—	0.936
– High-income OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international organisation of 30 countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and free-market economy...			0.950
Middle-income countries	876	10 725	0.776
Low-income countries	—	875	0.570
World World World is a highly common name for the planet Earth, but it was originally used to mean the sum of human civilization living on it, specifically human experience, history, or the 'human condition' in general....	—	—	0.743
– Developing countries Developing country Developing country is a term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well being. There is no single internationally-recognized definition of developed country, and the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries, with some developing...			0.688
– Least developed countries Least Developed Countries Least Developed Countries are countries which according to the United Nations exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world...			0.480

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UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year		Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
1997	{{N/A}}	Monaco	0.946	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
1997	{{N/A}}	San Marino	0.944	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
High human development
1998	{{N/A}}	Palau	0.861	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
Medium human development
1998	1995	North Korea	0.766	75
1998	{{N/A}}	Nauru	0.663	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
2000	1998	Iraq	0.583	126
1998	{{N/A}}	Tuvalu	0.583	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
1998	{{N/A}}	Micronesia	0.569	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
1998	{{N/A}}	Marshall Islands	0.563	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
1998	{{N/A}}	Kiribati	0.515	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
2007	2005	Zimbabwe	0.513	151
Low human development
2001	2001	Somalia	0.284	161	Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).

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Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)

Year		Country or Territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
2009	2007	Taiwan	0.943	25	As the UN does not recognize China and the United Nations China's seat in the United Nations and membership of the United Nations Security Council has been occupied by the People's Republic of China since October 25, 1971. The representatives of the PRC first attended the UN, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives on...  the Taiwan Republic of China The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition and jurisdiction over China into a democratic state with limited international recognition and jurisdiction only over Taiwan and minor islands, though it...  as a state Sovereign state A sovereign state is a political association with effective internal and external sovereignty over a geographic area and population which is not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state... , the HDI report does not include data for "Taiwan, Province of China Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics and Asian Games... " (the term used by the UN to refer to the domain of the Taiwan; see Political status of Taiwan Political status of Taiwan The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan hinges on whether Taiwan, including Penghu, should remain effectively independent as territory of the Republic of China , become unified with the territories now governed by the People's Republic of China , or formally declare independence... ). The ROC's government calculated its HDI as of 2007 to be 0.943 based on the following data: life expectancy of 78.4 years; adult literacy rate of 97.6%; combined gross enrollment rate of 101.9%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$ United States dollar The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S... 30,352.|group="nb"}}
1998	{{N/A}}	Puerto Rico	0.942	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
2008	2005	Martinique	0.929	24
1998	{{N/A}}	Greenland	0.927	{{N/A}}	date=December 2008}}
2008	2005	Guadeloupe	0.912	28
2006	2004	Macau	0.909	28
High human development
2008	2005	New Caledonia	0.878	34
2007	2004	Réunion	0.870	35
2008	2005	French Polynesia	0.864	42
2008	2005	French Guiana	0.862	43
Medium human development
2004	2002	Kosovo	0.733	{{N/A}}

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See also

• American Human Development Report
  American Human Development Report
  The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009, published by Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council, applies the Human Development approach to the United States and includes a modified American Human Development Index.- Description :The American Human...
  
  
• Happy Planet Index
  Happy Planet Index
  The Happy Planet Index is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in July 2006. The index is designed to challenge well-established indices of countries’ development, such as Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index...
  
  
• List of European countries by Human Development Index
• OSCE countries statistics
• Satisfaction with Life Index
  Satisfaction with Life Index
  The Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian G. White, an Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy...
  
  

External links

• Archive of previous global reports.

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