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World map indicating the Human Development Index (based on 2010 data, published on Nov 4, 2010)[1] 0.900 and over 0.6500.699 0.4000.449 0.8500.899 0.6000.649 0.3500.399 0.8000.849 0.5500.599 0.3000.349 0.7500.799 0.5000.549 under 0.300 0.7000.749 0.4500.499 Data unavailable
2010 Very High HDI nations, by population size North America Europe
Asia Oceania
This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released on 4 November 2010, andupdated on 10 June 2011), compiled on the basis of estimates for 2010. It covers 170 member
states of the United Nations (out of 192)[nb 1], along with Hong Kong (of the People's Republic of China), and the Palestinian territories; 22 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 oflife expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living forcountries 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 Pakistanieconomist Mahbub ul Haq[2] and Indian economist Amartya Sen.[3] Countries fall into four broad human development categories, each of which comprises 43 countries: Very High Human Development, High Human Development, Medium Human Development and Low Human Development. Due to the new methodology adopted in 2010 HD Report, its HDI figures appear lower than the HDI figures in previous reports. Starting in the report for 2007, the first category is referred to as developed countries, and the last three are all grouped in 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been removed that were based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross national income (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita.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.
Contents
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1 Complete list of countries 1.1 Very high human development (developed countries) 1.2 High human development (developing countries) 1.3 Medium human development (developing countries) 1.4 Low human development (developing countries) 2 List of countries by continent
o o o o o o o o o o o
2.1 Africa 2.2 Americas 2.3 Asia and Oceania 2.4 Europe 3 List of countries by non-continental region 3.1 Arab League member states 3.2 European Union 3.3 East Asia and the Pacific 3.4 Latin America 3.5 Middle East and North Africa 4 HDI by regions & groups 5 Countries missing from latest report 5.1 UN member states (latest UNDP data) 5.2 Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP) 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links
[edit]Complete
= increase. = steady.
list of countries
= 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.
This revision of the index was released on 10 June 2011 and estimates the HDI of countries
for 2010. It does not include 23 UN members, due to lack of data.
The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down)
relative to the revised estimates for 2007, released on 5 October 2009.
[edit]Very
high human development (developed countries)
Rank
HDI
Rank
Change New 2010 estimates for compared to old 2009 2010 values for [4] 2007
Country
New 2010 estimates for 2010

[4]
Change Change compared to New 2010 new 2010 estimates for compared to old 2009 estimates for 2010 values for [4] 2009 2007 [4]
Country
Norway
0.938
0.001
23
(5)
Italy
Australia
0.937
0.002
24
(13)
Luxembourg
(17)
New Zealand
0.907
0.003
25
(11)
Austria
(9)
United States
0.902
0.003
26
(5)
United Kingdom
Ireland
0.895
0.001
27
(5)
Singapore
(13)
Liechtenstein
0.891
0.002
28
(8)
Czech Republic
(1)
Netherlands
0.890
0.002
29
Slovenia
(4)
Canada
0.888
0.002
30
(2)
Andorra
(2)
Sweden
0.885
0.001
31
(11)
Slovakia
10
(12)
Germany
0.885
0.002
32
(3)
United Arab Emirates
11
(1)
Japan
0.884
0.003
33
(5)
Malta
12
(14)
South Korea
0.877
0.005
34
(6)
Estonia
13
(4)
Switzerland
0.874
0.002
35
(3)
Cyprus
14
(6)
France
0.872
0.003
36
(7)
Hungary
15
(12)
Israel
0.872
0.001
37
(7)
Brunei
16
(4)
Finland
0.871
0.002
38
(5)
Qatar
39 17
(14)
Bahrain
Iceland
0.869 40
(6)
Portugal
18
(1)
Belgium
0.867
0.002 41 Poland
19
(3)
Denmark
0.866
0.002 42
(5)
Barbados
20
(5)
Spain
0.863
0.003 43
(9)
Bahamas
21
(3)
Hong Kong
0.862
0.005
22 [edit]High Rank
(3)
Greece
0.855
0.002
human development (developing countries)

HDI Rank
Country

[4]
Country
44
(2)
Lithuania
0.783
0.001
66
(6)
Albania
45
(1)
Chile
0.783
0.004
67
(6)
Russia
46
(3)
Argentina
0.775
0.003
68
(16)
Kazakhstan
47
(16)
Kuwait
0.771
0.002
69
(19)
Azerbaijan
48
Latvia
0.769
70
(8)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
49
(16)
Montenegro
0.769
0.001
71
(16)
Ukraine
50
(13)
Romania
0.767
0.003
72
(18)
Iran
51
(6)
Croatia
0.767
0.002
73
(1)
Macedonia
52
(2)
Uruguay
0.765
0.005
74
(9)
Mauritius
53
(2)
Cuba
0.760
N/A
75
(2)
Brazil
54
N/A
Palau
0.757
N/A
76
(15)
Georgia
55
(2)
Libya
0.755
0.006
77
(17)
Venezuela
56
(6)
Panama
0.755
0.004
78
(8)
Armenia
57
(4)
Saudi Arabia
0.752
0.004
79
(3)
Ecuador
58
(3)
Mexico
0.750
0.005
80
(15)
Belize
59
(9)
Malaysia
0.744
0.005
81
(2)
Colombia
60
(3)
Bulgaria
0.743
0.002
82
(20)
Jamaica
61
(5)
Trinidad and Tobago
0.736
0.004
83
(17)
Tunisia
62
(7)
Serbia
0.735
0.002
84
(14)
Jordan
63
(7)
Belarus
0.732
0.003
85
(4)
Turkey
64
(8)
Costa Rica
0.725
0.002
86
(20)
Algeria
65
(15)
Peru
0.723
0.005
[edit]Medium Rank

HDI Rank
Country

[4]
Country
87
(14)
Tonga
0.677
0.002
109
Honduras
88
(2)
Fiji
0.669
0.002
110
(2)
Maldives
89
(1)
Turkmenistan
0.669
0.007
111
(1)
Indonesia
90
(1)
Dominican Republic
0.663
0.003
112
(1)
Kyrgyzstan
91
(2)
China
0.663
0.008
113
South Africa
92
(1)
El Salvador
0.659
0.004
114
Syria
93
(2)
Sri Lanka
0.658
0.005
94
(7)
Thailand
0.654
0.006
115
Tajikistan
95
(3)
Gabon
0.648
0.006
116
Vietnam
96
(2)
Suriname
0.646
0.003
117
Morocco
97
(13)
Palestinian territories
0.645
N/A
118
(1)
Nicaragua
98
(2)
Bolivia
0.643
0.006
119
(1)
Guatemala
99
(1)
Paraguay
0.640
0.006
120
Equatorial Guinea
100
(1)
Philippines
0.638
0.003
121
Cape Verde
101
(2)
Botswana
0.633
0.006
122
(12)
India
102
(5)
Moldova
0.623
0.003
123
Timor-Leste
103
(8)
Mongolia
0.622
0.006
124
Swaziland
104
Egypt
0.620
0.006
125
(1)
Laos
105
Uzbekistan
0.617
0.005
126
(1)
Solomon Islands
106
Micronesia, Federated States of
0.614
0.002
127
Cambodia
107
Guyana
0.611
0.006
128
(1)
Pakistan
108 [edit]Low
Namibia
0.606
0.003
129
(1)
Congo

HDI Rank
Rank
Country

[4]
Country
130
So Tom and Prncipe
0.488
0.003
152
Cte d'Ivoire
131
(1)
Kenya
0.470
0.006
153
Zambia
132
(1)
Bangladesh
0.469
0.006
154
Gambia
133
Ghana
0.467
0.004
155
(2)
Rwanda
134
Cameroon
0.460
0.004
156
(1)
Malawi
135
(1)
Burma
0.451
0.007
157
(1)
Sudan
136
(1)
Yemen
0.439
0.008
158
Afghanistan
137
Benin
0.435
0.003
159
Guinea
138
Madagascar
0.435
0.001
160
(1)
Ethiopia
139
Mauritania
0.433
0.004
161
(1)
Sierra Leone
140
Papua New Guinea
0.431
0.005
162
Central African Republic
141
Nepal
0.428
0.005
163
(1)
Mali
142
Togo
0.428
0.003
164
(1)
Burkina Faso
143
(1)
Comoros
0.428
0.002
165
Liberia
144
(1)
Lesotho
0.427
0.004
166
Chad
145
(2)
Nigeria
0.423
0.004
167
Guinea-Bissau
146
Uganda
0.422
0.006
168
Mozambique
147
Senegal
0.411
0.003
169
Burundi
148
Haiti
0.404
0.006
170
Niger
149
(2)
Angola
0.403
0.004
171
Democratic Republic of Congo
150
(1)
Djibouti
0.402
0.003 172 Zimbabwe
151 [edit]List
(2)
Tanzania
0.398
0.006
of countries by continent
[edit]Africa 10 highest HDIs Rank Country HDI 10 lowest HDIs Rank Country
High human development
Low human development
Libya
0.755
Zimbabwe
Mauritius
0.701
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tunisia
0.683
Niger
Algeria
0.677
Burundi
Medium human development
Mozambique
Gabon
0.648
Guinea-Bissau
Botswana
0.633
Chad
Egypt
0.620
Liberia
Namibia
0.606
Burkina Faso
South Africa
0.597
10
Mali
10
Morocco
0.567
[edit]Americas
10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

10 lowest HDIs
Rank
Country
Very high human development
United States
0.902
Haiti
Canada
0.888
Barbados
0.788
Guatemala
Bahamas
0.784
Nicaragua
Honduras
Chile
0.783
Guyana
Argentina
0.775
Paraguay
Uruguay
0.765
Bolivia
Cuba
0.760
Suriname
Panama
0.755
El Salvador
10
Mexico
0.750
10
Dominican Republic
[edit]Asia
and Oceania

10 lowest HDIs
Rank
Country
Australia
0.937
Afghanistan
New Zealand
0.907
2 3 4 5
Nepal Papua New Guinea Yemen Myanmar Bangladesh Medium human development Pakistan Cambodia Solomon Islands Laos
Japan
0.884
South Korea
0.877
6 7 8
Israel
0.872
Hong Kong
0.862
9 10
Singapore
0.846
0.815
Cyprus
0.810
10
Brunei
0.805
[edit]Europe

10 lowest HDIs
Rank
Country
Norway
0.938
Moldova
Ireland
0.895
Liechtenstein
0.891
Turkey
Netherlands
0.890
Armenia
Sweden
0.885
Georgia
Germany
0.885
Macedonia
Switzerland
0.874
Ukraine
France
0.872
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Finland
0.871
Azerbaijan
10
Iceland
0.869
Russia
10 [edit]List
Albania
of countries by non-continental region
[edit]Arab
League member states

10 lowest HDIs HDI
10 highest HDIs
Rank
Country
Rank
Country
0.815
Sudan
Qatar
0.803
Djibouti
Bahrain
0.801
Comoros
Mauritania
Kuwait
0.771
Yemen
Libya
0.755
Saudi Arabia
0.752
Morocco
Tunisia
0.683
Syria
Jordan
0.681
Egypt
Algeria
0.677
10
0.645
10 [edit]European
Algeria
Union
HDI (average of all members): 0.835

10 lowest HDIs
Rank
Country
Ireland
0.895
Bulgaria
Netherlands
0.890
Romania
Sweden
0.885
Latvia
Germany
0.885
Lithuania
France
0.872
Finland
0.871
Poland
Belgium
0.867
Portugal
Denmark
0.866
Hungary
Spain
0.863
Cyprus
10
Greece
0.855
Estonia
10 [edit]East
Malta
Asia and the Pacific

10 lowest HDIs HDI
10 highest HDIs
Rank
Country
Rank
Country
Australia
0.937
Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
0.907
Myanmar
Japan
0.884
South Korea
0.877
Cambodia
Hong Kong
0.862
Solomon Islands
Singapore
0.846
Laos
Brunei
0.805
Timor-Leste
Vietnam
Palau
0.757
Indonesia
Malaysia
0.744
Micronesia, Federated States of
10
Tonga
0.677
10
Mongolia
[edit]Latin
America
10 lowest HDIs HDI
10 highest HDIs
Rank
Country
Rank
Country
Chile
0.783
Haiti
Argentina
0.775
Uruguay
0.765
Guatemala
Cuba
0.760
Nicaragua
Panama
0.755
Honduras
Mexico
0.750
Paraguay
Costa Rica
0.725
Bolivia
Peru
0.723
El Salvador
Brazil
0.699
Dominican Republic
10
Venezuela
0.696
Colombia
10 [edit]Middle 10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

Ecuador
East and North Africa

10 lowest HDIs
Rank
Country
Israel
0.872
Sudan
0.815
Yemen
Cyprus
0.810
Qatar
0.803
Morocco
Bahrain
0.801
Syria
Egypt
Kuwait
0.771
Libya
0.755
Saudi Arabia
0.752
Iran
0.702
Algeria
10
Tunisia
0.683
Turkey
Jordan
10 [edit]HDI
Tunisia
by regions & groups

2010 2010 estimates estimates for 2010 for 2009 HDI[5] HDI[5]
Region or Group (not including: Cuba, Palau, and the Palestinian territories.)
OECD Developed
0.879
0.876
Very High Human Development
0.878
0.875
Non-OECD Developed
0.844
0.840
High Human Development
0.717
0.712
Latin America and the Caribbean
0.704
0.699
Europe and Central Asia
0.702
0.698
East Asia and the Pacific
0.643
0.636
World
0.624
0.619
Medium Human Development
0.592
0.586
Arab states
0.588
0.583
South Asia
0.516
0.510
Low Human Development
0.393
0.388
Sub-Saharan Africa
0.389
0.384
Least developed countries [edit]Countries
0.386
0.382
missing from latest report
[edit]UN Year
member states (latest UNDP data)
[edit]Non-UN
members (not calculate UNDP)
Country
Publication Data
HDI Rank
Source
Year Country or Territory

Publication Data
Very high human developme 1997

N/A
Monaco
0.946
N/A
[citation needed]
1998 1997
N/A
N/A
Puerto Rico
San Marino
0.944
N/A
[citation needed]
2008
2005
Martinique
High human development 1998 2009 2007 Antigua and Barbuda 0.868 47
[6]
N/A
Greenland
2008 2009 2007 Oman 0.846 56

[6]
2005
Guadeloupe
2010 2009 2007 Seychelles 0.845 57

[6]
2007
Macau
2010 2009 2007 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.838 62

[6]
2010
Republic of China (Taiwan)
High human development 2009 2007 Saint Lucia 0.821 69

[6]
2008 2009 2007 Dominica 0.814 73

[6]
2005
New Caledonia
2007 2009 2007 Grenada 0.813 74

[6]
2004
Runion
2008 2009 2007 Lebanon 0.803 83

[6]
2005
French Polynesia
2008 Medium human development
2005
French Guiana
2009
2007
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
0.772
91
[6]
Medium human developmen
2004 2009 2007 Samoa 0.771 94

[6]
2003
Kosovo
1998
1995
North Korea
0.766
75
[7]
2009
2007
Vanuatu
0.693 126
[6]
1998
N/A
Nauru
0.663
N/A
[citation needed]
2009
2007
Bhutan
0.619 132
[6]
2000
1998
Iraq
0.583 126
[8]
1998
N/A
Tuvalu
0.583
N/A
[citation needed]
1998
N/A
Marshall Islands
0.563
N/A
[citation needed]
1998
N/A
Kiribati
0.515
N/A
[citation needed]
2009
2007
Eritrea
0.472 165
[6]
2001
2001
Somalia
0.284 161
[9][nb 2]
[edit]See
also
American Human Development Project Happy Planet 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 Satisfaction with Life Index
[edit]Notes
1. 2. 3.
^ The UN had 192 members in 2010: South Sudan (193rd UN member) was not yet
independent from Sudan. ^ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data). ^ The UN does not recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a sovereign state. The
HDI report does not include Taiwan as part of the People's Republic of China when calculating China's figures (see [1]). The ROC's government calculated its HDI to be 0.868, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP for calculating 2010 HDIs.[14]
[edit]References
1. 2. 3.
^ Human Development Index (HDI) - 2010 Rankings (the column on the right side), HDRO
(Human Development Report Office), United Nations Development Programme ^ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme.
Retrieved 26 March 2009. ^ "The Human Development concept". UNDP. 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "HDI 2010 Index". HDRO (Human Development Report
Office United Nations Development Programme. pp. 13. Retrieved 10 June 2010. ^ a b "2010 Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. p.
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1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009. ^ "Human Development Report 2000" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme.
2000. p. 163. Retrieved 26 March 2009. ^ "Human Development Report: Somalia 2001" (PDF). 2001. p. 198. Retrieved 26 March
2009.[dead link] ^ "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998.
Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply the United States's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed].
11. 12.
^ a b c d e f "Les dfis de la croissance caldonienne, on page 13" (in French) (PDF).
CEROM - INSEE. Retrieved 2008-12-10. ^ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998.
Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply Denmark's HDI published on the 1997 report[citation needed].
13.
^ The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its
own HDI. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2007, Macau would rank 23rd or 24th (tying either Singapore or Hong Kong). "Macao in Figures 2010". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
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[edit]External
links
Archive of previous global reports.
HDI 2010 Index (the column on the right side). Data challenges in estimating the HDI: The cases of Cuba, Palau and the Occupied
Palestinian Territory.
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List of countries by Human Development Index

determined using HDI values to the sixth decimal point.

for 2010. It does not include 23 UN members, due to lack of data.

relative to the revised estimates for 2007, released on 5 October 2009.

high human development (developed countries)

New 2010 estimates for 2010

United Arab Emirates

human development (developing countries)

New 2010 estimates for 2010

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Trinidad and Tobago

human development (developing countries)

New 2010 estimates for 2010

Micronesia, Federated States of

human development (developing countries)

New 2010 estimates for 2010

So Tom and Prncipe

Papua New Guinea

Central African Republic

Democratic Republic of Congo

0.003 172 Zimbabwe

New 2010 estimates for 2010

High human development

Low human development

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Medium human development

10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

Very high human development

Low human development

Medium human development

High human development

10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

Very high human development

Low human development

United Arab Emirates

10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

Very high human development

Medium human development

High human development

Bosnia and Herzegovina

of countries by non-continental region

League member states

Very high human development

Low human development

United Arab Emirates

High human development

Medium human development

Medium human development

High human development

HDI (average of all members): 0.835

10 highest HDIs HDI Rank Country

Very high human development

High human development

Very high human development

Asia and the Pacific

Very high human development

Low human development

Papua New Guinea

Medium human development

High human development

Micronesia, Federated States of