List of countries by Human Development Index

This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

as included in a United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...

's Human Development Report

Human Development Report

The Human Development Report is an annual milestone publication by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme .-History:...

 (released on 2 November 2011, compiled on the basis of estimates for 2011. It covers 185 member states of the United Nations (out of 193), along with Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 (of the People's Republic of China), and the Palestinian territories

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

; 8 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

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

 (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 ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...

, literacy

Literacy

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...

, education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 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 underage and to encourage family stability...

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

Developed country

A developed country is a country that has a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue...

, a developing

Developing country

A developing country, also known as a less-developed country, is a nation with a low level of material well-being. Since no single definition of the term developing country is recognized internationally, the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries...

 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 Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i economist

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes 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 was an Pakistani economist who is known to be the pioneer of Human development theory and the 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 with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n economist Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...

.

Countries fall into four broad human development categories, each of which comprises 47 countries: Very High Human Development, High Human Development, Medium Human Development and Low Human Development (46 countries in this category).

Due to the new methodology adopted since the 2010 Human Development Report, its HDI figures appear lower than the HDI figures in previous reports.

From 2007 to 2010, the first category was referred to as developed countries

Developed country

A developed country is a country that has a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue...

, and the last three are all grouped in developing countries

Developing country

A developing country, also known as a less-developed country, is a nation with a low level of material well-being. Since no single definition of the term developing country is recognized internationally, the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries...

. The original "high human development" category has been split into two as above in the report for 2007.

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

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

 (GDP) in purchasing power parity

Purchasing power parity

In economics, purchasing power parity is a condition between countries where an amount of money has the same purchasing power in different countries. The prices of the goods between the countries would only reflect the exchange rates...

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

Gross National Income

The GNI consists of: the personal consumption expenditures, the gross private investment, the government consumption expenditures, the net income from assets abroad , and the gross exports of goods and services, after deducting two components: the gross imports of goods and services, and the...

 (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita.

The country with the largest decrease in HDI since 1998 is Zimbabwe, falling from 0.514 in 1998 to 0.140 in 2010. The country with the largest decrease since 2009 is Cape Verde, which decreased by 0.170.

Over half of the world's population live in countries with "medium human development" (51%), while less than a fifth (18%) populate countries falling in the "low human development" category. Countries with "high" to "very high" human development account for less than a third of the world's total population (30%).

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) relative to new 2011 data for 2010 (as indicated in the new 2011 report, p. 131).

Very high human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
1		Norway	0.943	0.002
2		Australia	0.929	0.002
3		Netherlands	0.910	0.001
4		United States	0.910	0.002
5		New Zealand	0.908
6		Canada	0.908	0.001
7		Republic of Ireland	0.908	0.001
8		Liechtenstein	0.905	0.001
9		Germany	0.905	0.002
10		Sweden	0.904	0.003
11		Switzerland	0.903	0.002
12		Japan	0.901	0.002
13	(1)	Hong Kong	0.898	0.004
14	(1)	Iceland	0.898	0.002
15		South Korea	0.897	0.003
16		Denmark	0.895	0.002
17		Israel	0.888	0.002
18		Belgium	0.886	0.001
19		Austria	0.885	0.002
20		Early Modern France	0.884	0.001
21		Slovenia	0.884	0.002
22		Finland	0.882	0.002
23		Spain	0.878	0.002
24		Italy	0.874	0.001

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
25		Luxembourg	0.867	0.002
26		Singapore	0.866	0.002
27		Czech Republic	0.865	0.002
28		United Kingdom	0.863	0.001
29		Greece	0.861	0.001
30		United Arab Emirates	0.846	0.001
31		Cyprus	0.840	0.001
32		Andorra	0.838
33		Brunei	0.838	0.001
34		Estonia	0.835	0.003
35		Slovakia	0.834	0.002
36		Malta	0.832	0.002
37		Qatar	0.831	0.006
38		Hungary	0.816	0.002
39		Poland	0.813	0.002
40	(1)	Lithuania	0.810	0.005
41	(1)	Portugal	0.809	0.001
42		Bahrain	0.806	0.001
43		Latvia	0.805	0.003
44		Chile	0.805	0.003
45	(1)	Argentina	0.797	0.003
46	(1)	Independent State of Croatia	0.796	0.002
47		Barbados	0.793	0.002

High human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
48		Uruguay	0.783	0.003
49		Palau	0.782	0.003
50		Kingdom of Romania	0.781	0.002
51		Cuba	0.776	0.003
52		Seychelles	0.773	0.002
53		The Bahamas	0.771	0.001
54	(1)	Kingdom of Montenegro	0.771	0.002
55	(1)	Kingdom of Bulgaria	0.771	0.003
56	(2)	Saudi Arabia	0.770	0.003
57		Mexico	0.770	0.003
58	(1)	Panama	0.768	0.003
59	(1)	Serbia	0.766	0.002
60	(1)	Antigua and Barbuda	0.764	0.001
61	(3)	Malaysia	0.761	0.003
62	(1)	Trinidad and Tobago	0.760	0.002
63	(-1)	Kuwait	0.760	0.002
64	(-10)	Libya	0.760	0.010
65		Belarus	0.756	0.005
66		Russia	0.755	0.004
67		Grenada	0.748	0.002
68	(1)	Kazakhstan	0.745	0.005
69	(-1)	Costa Rica	0.744	0.002
70	(1)	Albania	0.739	0.002
71	(-1)	Lebanon	0.739	0.002

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
72		Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.735
73		Venezuela	0.735	0.001
74		Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.733	0.002
75		Georgia (country)	0.733	0.004
76	(3)	Ukraine	0.729	0.004
77		Mauritius	0.728	0.002
78	(-2)	Republic of Macedonia	0.728	0.002
79	(-2)	Jamaica	0.727	0.001
80	(1)	Peru	0.725	0.004
81	(-1)	Dominica	0.724	0.001
82		Saint Lucia	0.723	0.003
83		Ecuador	0.720	0.002
84	(1)	Brazil	0.718	0.003
85	(-1)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.717	0.002
86		Armenia	0.716	0.002
87	(1)	Colombia	0.710	0.003
88	(-1)	Iran	0.707
89		Oman	0.705	0.001
90		Tonga	0.704	0.001
91		Azerbaijan	0.700	0.001
92	(3)	Turkey	0.699	0.003
93	(-1)	Belize	0.699	0.001
94	(-1)	Tunisia	0.698

Medium human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
95	(-1)	Jordan	0.698	0.001
96		Algeria	0.698	0.002
97	(1)	Sri Lanka	0.691	0.005
98	(2)	Dominican Republic	0.689	0.003
99		Samoa	0.688	0.002
100	(-3)	Fiji	0.688	0.001
101		Mainland China	0.687	0.005
102		Turkmenistan	0.686	0.005
103		Thailand	0.682	0.002
104		Suriname	0.680	0.003
105		El Salvador	0.674	0.002
106		Gabon	0.674	0.004
107		Paraguay	0.665	0.003
108		Bolivia	0.663	0.003
109		Maldives	0.661	0.003
110		Mongolia	0.653	0.006
111		Moldova	0.649	0.005
112	(1)	Philippines	0.644	0.003
113	(-1)	Egypt	0.644
114		Palestinian territories Palestinian territories The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...	0.641	0.001
115		Uzbekistan	0.641	0.005
116			0.636	0.001
117	(2)	Guyana	0.633	0.004
118	(-1)	Botswana	0.633	0.002

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
119	(-1)		0.632	0.001
120	(1)	Namibia	0.625	0.003
121	(-1)	Honduras	0.625	0.002
122		Kiribati	0.624	0.003
123	(1)	South Africa	0.619	0.004
124	(1)	Indonesia	0.617	0.004
125	(-2)	Vanuatu	0.617	0.002
126		Kyrgyzstan	0.615	0.004
127		Tajikistan	0.607	0.003
128		Vietnam	0.593	0.003
129		Nicaragua	0.589	0.002
130		Morocco	0.582	0.003
131		Guatemala	0.574	0.001
132		Iraq	0.573	0.006
133		Cape Verde	0.568	0.002
134		India	0.547	0.005
135	(1)	Ghana	0.541	0.008
136	(-1)	Equatorial Guinea	0.537	0.003
137		Republic of the Congo	0.533	0.005
138	(1)	Laos	0.524	0.004
139	(2)	Cambodia	0.523	0.005
140	(-2)	Swaziland	0.522	0.002
141	(-1)	Bhutan	0.522	0.004

Low human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
142		Solomon Islands	0.510	0.003
143	(1)	Kenya	0.509	0.004
144	(-1)	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.509	0.003
145		Pakistan	0.504	0.001
146		Bangladesh	0.500	0.004
147		East Timor	0.495	0.004
148		Angola	0.486	0.004
149	(1)	Myanmar	0.483	0.004
150	(1)	Cameroon	0.482	0.003
151	(-2)	Madagascar	0.480	0.001
152	(1)	Tanzania	0.466	0.005
153	(-1)	Papua New Guinea	0.466	0.004
154		Yemen	0.462	0.002
155		Senegal	0.459	0.002
156	(1)	Nigeria	0.459	0.005
157	(-1)	Nepal	0.458	0.003
158	(1)	Haiti	0.454	0.005
159	(-1)	Mauritania	0.453	0.002
160		Lesotho	0.450	0.004
161		Uganda	0.446	0.004
162		Togo	0.435	0.002
163		Comoros	0.433	0.002
164	(1)	Zambia	0.430	0.005
165	(-1)	Djibouti	0.430	0.003

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010		New 2011 Estimates for 2011	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010
166		Rwanda	0.429	0.004
167		Benin	0.427	0.002
168		The Gambia	0.420	0.002
169		Sudan	0.408	0.002
170		Côte d'Ivoire	0.400	0.001
171		Malawi	0.400	0.005
172		Afghanistan	0.398	0.004
173		Zimbabwe	0.376	0.012
174		Ethiopia	0.363	0.005
175		Mali	0.359	0.003
176		Guinea-Bissau	0.353	0.002
177		Eritrea	0.349	0.004
178		Guinea	0.344	0.002
179		Central African Republic	0.343	0.004
180		Sierra Leone	0.336	0.002
181		Burkina Faso	0.331	0.002
182	(1)	Liberia	0.329	0.004
183	(-1)	Chad	0.328	0.002
184		Mozambique	0.322	0.005
185		Burundi	0.316	0.003
186		Niger	0.295	0.002
187			0.286	0.004

Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
High human development
1	Seychelles	0.773
2	Libya	0.760
3	Mauritius	0.728
4	Tunisia	0.698
Medium human development
5	Algeria	0.698
6	Gabon	0.674
7	Egypt	0.644
8	Botswana	0.633
9	Namibia	0.625
10	South Africa	0.619

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.286
2	Niger	0.295
3	Burundi	0.316
4	Mozambique	0.322
5	Chad	0.328
6	Liberia	0.329
7	Burkina Faso	0.331
8	Sierra Leone	0.336
9	Central African Republic	0.343
10	Guinea	0.344

Americas

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	United States	0.910
2	Canada	0.908
3	Chile	0.805
4	Argentina	0.797
5	Barbados	0.793
High human development
6	Uruguay	0.783
7	Cuba	0.776
8	The Bahamas	0.771
9	Mexico	0.770
10	Panama	0.768

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Haiti	0.454
Medium human development
2	Guatemala	0.574
3	Nicaragua	0.589
4	Honduras	0.625
5	Guyana	0.633
6	Bolivia	0.663
7	Paraguay	0.665
8	El Salvador	0.674
9	Suriname	0.680
10	Dominican Republic	0.689

Asia and Oceania

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Australia	0.929
2	New Zealand	0.908
3	Japan	0.901
4	Hong Kong	0.898
5	South Korea	0.897
6	Israel	0.888
7	Singapore	0.866
8	United Arab Emirates	0.846
9	Cyprus	0.840
10	Brunei	0.838

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Afghanistan	0.398
2		0.458
3	Yemen	0.462
4	Papua New Guinea	0.466
5	Myanmar	0.483
6	East Timor	0.495
7	Bangladesh	0.500
8	Pakistan	0.504
9	Solomon Islands	0.510
Medium human development
10	Bhutan	0.522

Europe

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Norway	0.943
2	Netherlands	0.910
3	Republic of Ireland	0.908
4	Liechtenstein	0.905
5	Germany	0.905
6	Sweden	0.904
7	Switzerland	0.903
8	Iceland	0.898
9	Denmark	0.895
10	Belgium	0.886

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Medium human development
1	Moldova	0.649
High human development
2	Turkey	0.699
3	Azerbaijan	0.700
4	Armenia	0.716
5	Republic of Macedonia	0.728
6	Ukraine	0.729
7	Georgia (country)	0.733
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.733
9	Albania	0.739
10	Kazakhstan	0.745

Arab League member states

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	United Arab Emirates	0.846
2	Qatar	0.831
3	Bahrain	0.806
High human development
4	Saudi Arabia	0.770
5	Kuwait	0.760
6	Libya	0.760
7	Lebanon	0.739
8	Oman	0.705
9	Tunisia	0.698
Medium human development
10	Jordan	0.698

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Sudan	0.408
2	Djibouti	0.430
3	Comoros	0.433
4	Mauritania	0.453
5	Yemen	0.462
Medium human development
6	Iraq	0.573
7	Morocco	0.582
8	Syria	0.632
9	Palestinian territories Palestinian territories The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...	0.641
10	Egypt	0.644

European Union

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Netherlands	0.910
2	Republic of Ireland	0.908
3	Germany	0.905
4	Sweden	0.904
5	Denmark	0.895
6	Belgium	0.886
7	Austria	0.885
8	Early Modern France	0.884
9	Slovenia	0.884
10	Finland	0.882

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
High human development
1	Kingdom of Bulgaria	0.771
2	Kingdom of Romania	0.781
Very high human development
3	Latvia	0.805
4	Portugal	0.809
5	Lithuania	0.810
6	Poland	0.813
7	Hungary	0.816
8	Malta	0.832
9	Slovakia	0.834
10	Estonia	0.835

East Asia and the Pacific

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Australia	0.929
2	New Zealand	0.908
3	Japan	0.901
4	Hong Kong	0.898
5	South Korea	0.897
6	Singapore	0.866
7	Brunei	0.838
High human development
8	Palau	0.782
9	Malaysia	0.761
10	Tonga	0.704

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Papua New Guinea	0.466
2	Myanmar	0.483
3	East Timor	0.495
4	Solomon Islands	0.510
Medium human development
5	Cambodia	0.523
6	Laos	0.524
7	Vietnam	0.593
8	Vanuatu	0.617
9	Indonesia	0.617
10	Kiribati	0.624

Latin America

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Chile	0.805
2	Argentina	0.797
High human development
3	Uruguay	0.783
4	Cuba	0.776
5	Mexico	0.770
6	Panama	0.768
7	Costa Rica	0.744
8	Venezuela	0.735
9	Peru	0.725
10	Ecuador	0.720

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Haiti	0.454
Medium human development
2	Guatemala	0.574
3	Nicaragua	0.589
4	Honduras	0.625
5	Bolivia	0.663
6	Paraguay	0.665
7	El Salvador	0.674
8	Dominican Republic	0.689
High human development
9	Colombia	0.710
10	Brazil	0.718

Middle East and North Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Israel	0.888
2	United Arab Emirates	0.846
3	Cyprus	0.840
4	Qatar	0.831
5	Bahrain	0.806
High human development
6	Saudi Arabia	0.770
7	Kuwait	0.760
8	Libya	0.760
9	Lebanon	0.739
10	Iran	0.707

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Sudan	0.408
2	Yemen	0.462
Medium human development
3	Iraq	0.573
4	Morocco	0.582
5	Syria	0.632
6	Palestinian territories Palestinian territories The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...	0,641
7	Egypt	0.644
8	Algeria	0.698
9	Jordan	0.698
High human development
10	Tunisia	0.698

HDI by regions & groups

Region or Group	2011 estimates for 2011 HDI	2011 estimates for 2010 HDI
Very high human development
Very High Human Development	0.889	0.888
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international economic organisation of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade...	0.873	0.871
High human development
Europe and Central Asia	0.751	0.748
High Human Development	0.741	0.739
Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 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 crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...	0.731	0.728
Medium human development
World World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	0.682	0.679
East Asia and the Pacific Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...	0.671	0.666
Arab states	0.641	0.639
Small Island Developing States Small Island Developing States Small Island Developing States are low-lying coastal countries that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges, including small but growing populations, limited resources, remoteness, susceptibility to natural disasters, vulnerability to external shocks, excessive dependence on...	0.640	0.638
Medium Human Development	0.630	0.625
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 to the west and the east...	0.548	0.545
Low human development
Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa as a geographical term refers to the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. A political definition of Sub-Saharan Africa, instead, covers all African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...	0.463	0.460
Low Human Development	0.456	0.453
Least Developed Countries Least Developed Countries Least developed country is the name given to a country which, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world...	0.439	0.435

UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year		Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
1997		Monaco	0.946
1997		San Marino	0.944
Medium human development
1998	1995	North Korea	0.766	75
1998		Nauru	0.663
1998		Tuvalu	0.583
1998		Marshall Islands	0.563
Low human development
2001	2001	Somalia	0.284	161	Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).

Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)

Year		Country or Territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
1998		Puerto Rico	0.942
2008	2005	Martinique	0.929	24
1998		Greenland	0.927
2008	2005	Guadeloupe	0.912	28
2010	2007	Macau	0.944	23
2010	2010		0.868	18
High human development
2010	2010	Republic of Kosovo*	0.700
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	calculated by the UNDP

See also

• American Human Development Project
  American Human Development Project
  The American Human Development Project is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative of the Social Science Research Council that aims to stimulate fact-based dialogue about human development issues in the United States. The project introduced the human development approach to the U.S...
  
  
• 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 African countries by Human Development Index
• List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index
• List of Australian states and territories by HDI
• List of Brazilian states by Human Development Index
• List of Chilean regions by Human Development Index
• List of Chinese administrative divisions by Human Development Index
• List of countries by Human Development Index/Former reports
• List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI
• List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index
• List of Indonesian provinces by HDI
• List of Mexican states by Human Development Index
• List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index
• List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index
• List of Russian federal subjects by HDI
• List of sovereign states in Europe by Human Development Index
• List of Venezuelan states by human development index
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics
  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics
  1 These countries are currently not participating in the EU's single market , but the EU has common external Customs Union agreements with Turkey , Andorra and San Marino . Monaco participates in the EU customs union through its relationship with France; its ports are administered by the French...
  
  
• 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. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations....
  
  

External links

• Human Development Report 2011
• Archive of Previous global reports.
• HDI 2011 Index (the first column).
• Data challenges in estimating the HDI: The cases of Cuba, Palau and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.