List of countries by Human Development Index

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World map indicating the categories of Human Development Index by country (based on 2015 and 2016 data, published on 21 March 2017).

Very high High

Medium Low

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World map indicating the Human Development Index (based on 2015 and 2016 data, published on 21 March 2017).

0.900 and over 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749

0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599 0.500–0.549 0.450–0.499

0.400–0.449 0.350–0.399 0.349 and under Data unavailable

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 2 November 2011, put together based on estimates for 2011. It covers 185 member states of the United Nations (out of 193), along with Hong Kong (of the People's Republic of China), and the Palestinian territories; 8 UN member states are not included because there is not enough 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 way 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 effect of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq^[1] and Indian economist Amartya Sen.^[2]

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

From 2007 to 2010, the first two categories was referred to as developed countries, and the last two 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) that have been removed were based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross national income (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita.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.

Over half of the world's population live in countries with "medium human development" (51%), while less than a fifth (18%) of the world's population are in countries that are 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 = increase.
Steady = steady.
Decrease = decrease.

Very high human development

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
1	Steady	23x15px Norway	0.949	Increase 0.001
2	Increase (1)	23x15px Australia	0.939	Increase 0.002
2	Steady	23x16px Switzerland	0.939	Increase 0.001
4	Steady	23x15px Germany	0.926	Increase 0.002
5	Increase (1)	23x15px Denmark	0.925	Increase 0.002
5	Decrease (1)	23x15px Singapore	0.925	Increase 0.001
7	Decrease (1)	23x15px Netherlands	0.924	Increase 0.001
8	Steady	23x15px Ireland	0.923	Increase 0.003
9	Steady	23x15px Iceland	0.921	Increase 0.002
10	Decrease (1)	23x15px Canada	0.920	Increase 0.001
10	Increase (1)	23x15px United States	0.920	Increase 0.002
12	Steady	23x15px Hong Kong	0.917	Increase 0.001
13	Steady	23x15px New Zealand	0.915	Increase 0.002
14	Increase (1)	23x15px Sweden	0.913	Increase 0.004
15	Decrease (1)	23x15px Liechtenstein	0.912	Increase 0.001
16	Steady	23x15px United Kingdom	0.909	Increase 0.001
17	Steady	23x15px Japan	0.903	Increase 0.001
18	Steady	23x15px South Korea	0.901	Increase 0.002
19	Steady	23x15px Israel	0.899	Increase 0.001
20	Steady	23x15px Luxembourg	0.898	Increase 0.002
21	Increase (1)	23x15px France	0.897	Increase 0.003
22	Decrease (1)	23x15px Belgium	0.896	Increase 0.001
23	Steady	23x15px Finland	0.895	Increase 0.002
24	Steady	23x15px Austria	0.893	Increase 0.001
25	Steady	23x15px Slovenia	0.890	Increase 0.002
26	Increase (1)	23x15px Italy	0.887	Increase 0.006

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
27	Decrease (1)	23x15px Spain	0.884	Increase 0.002
28	Steady	23x15px Czech Republic	0.878	Increase 0.003
29	Steady	23x15px Taiwan	0.866	Increase 0.001
30	Steady	23x15px Uruguay	0.865	Increase 0.001
30	Increase (1)	23x15px Estonia	0.865	Increase 0.002
32	Steady	23x15px Andorra	0.858	Increase 0.001
33	Increase (1)	23x15px Cyprus	0.856	Increase 0.002
33	Increase (2)	23x15px Malta	0.856	Increase 0.003
33	Steady	23x15px Qatar	0.856	Increase 0.001
36	Steady	23x15px Poland	0.855	Increase 0.003
37	Steady	23x15px Lithuania	0.848	Increase 0.002
38	Steady	23x15px Chile	0.847	Increase 0.002
38	Steady	23x15px Croatia	0.847	Increase 0.002
40	Steady	23x15px Slovakia	0.845	Increase 0.003
41	Steady	23x15px Portugal	0.843	Increase 0.002
42	Steady	23x15px United Arab Emirates	0.840	Increase 0.004
43	Steady	23x15px Hungary	0.836	Increase 0.002
44	Steady	23x15px Latvia	0.830	Increase 0.002
45	Steady	23x15px Greece	0.827	Increase 0.001
45	Increase (1)	23x15px Saudi Arabia	0.827	Increase 0.004
47	Decrease (1)	23x15px Bahrain	0.824	Increase 0.001
48	Decrease (1)	23x15px Montenegro	0.807	Increase 0.003
49	Decrease (1)	23x15px Russia	0.804	Decrease 0.001
50	Increase (1)	23x15px Malaysia	0.802	Increase 0.004
51	Decrease (1)	23x15px Kuwait	0.800	Increase 0.001

High human development

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
52	Decrease (1)	23x15px Belarus	0.796	Decrease 0.002
52	Increase (1)	23x15px Oman	0.796	Increase 0.001
54	Steady	23x15px Barbados	0.795	Increase 0.001
54	Steady	23x15px China	0.795	Increase 0.001
56	Increase (1)	23x15px South Africa	0.794	Increase 0.002
56	Steady	23x15px Kazakhstan	0.794	Increase 0.001
58	Steady	23x15px Morocco	0.792	Increase 0.002
59	Steady	23x15px Romania	0.789	Increase 0.010
60	Increase (2)	23x15px Palau	0.788	Increase 0.005
60	Steady	23x15px Panama	0.788	Increase 0.003
62	Decrease (1)	23x15px Antigua and Barbuda	0.786	Increase 0.002
63	Steady	23x15px Seychelles	0.782	Increase 0.001
64	Steady	23x15px Mauritius	0.781	Increase 0.002
65	Decrease (1)	23x15px Trinidad and Tobago	0.780	Increase 0.001
66	Steady	23x15px Costa Rica	0.776	Increase 0.001
66	Steady	23x15px Serbia	0.776	Increase 0.001
68	Increase (1)	23x15px Egypt	0.775	Increase 0.003
69	Decrease (1)	23x15px Iran	0.774	Steady
70	Increase (1)	23x15px Georgia	0.769	Increase 0.001
71	Increase (1)	23x15px Turkey	0.767	Increase 0.003
71	Decrease (1)	23x15px Venezuela	0.767	Decrease 0.002
73	Increase (1)	23x15px Sri Lanka	0.766	Increase 0.002
74	Increase (1)	23x15px Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.765	Increase 0.003
75	Steady	23x15px Albania	0.764	Increase 0.002
76	Decrease (2)	23x15px Lebanon	0.763	Steady
77	Steady	23x15px Mexico	0.762	Increase 0.004
78	Decrease (1)	23x15px Azerbaijan	0.759	Increase 0.001
79	Steady	23x15px Brazil	0.754	Steady

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
79	Increase (1)	23x15px Grenada	0.754	Increase 0.003
81	Increase (1)	23x15px Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.750	Increase 0.003
82	Steady	23x15px Macedonia	0.748	Increase 0.002
83	Increase (1)	23x15px Algeria	0.745	Increase 0.002
84	Increase (1)	23x15px Armenia	0.743	Increase 0.002
84	Decrease (3)	23x15px Ukraine	0.743	Decrease 0.005
86	Decrease (1)	23x15px Jordan	0.741	Steady
87	Increase (2)	23x15px Peru	0.740	Increase 0.003
87	Increase (1)	23x15px Thailand	0.740	Increase 0.003
89	Decrease (2)	23x15px Ecuador	0.739	Steady
90	Increase (1)	23x15px Argentina	0.738	Increase 0.010
91	Steady	23x15px Vietnam	0.736	Increase 0.002
92	Increase (1)	23x15px Mongolia	0.735	Increase 0.002
92	Decrease (2)	23x15px Saint Lucia	0.735	Steady
94	Steady	23x15px Jamaica	0.730	Increase 0.001
95	Steady	23x15px Colombia	0.727	Increase 0.003
96	Decrease (1)	23x15px Dominica	0.726	Increase 0.002
97	Steady	23x15px Suriname	0.725	Decrease 0.002
97	Steady	23x15px Tunisia	0.725	Increase 0.002
99	Increase (2)	23x15px Dominican Republic	0.722	Increase 0.004
99	Steady	23x15px Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.722	Increase 0.002
101	Steady	23x15px Tonga	0.721	Increase 0.003
—	—	World	0.717	—
102	Decrease (2)	23x15px Libya	0.716	Decrease 0.003
103	Steady	23x15px Belize	0.706	Steady
104	Steady	23x15px Samoa	0.704	Increase 0.002
105	Steady	23x15px Maldives	0.701	Steady
105	Increase (3)	23x15px Uzbekistan	0.701	Increase 0.004

Medium human development

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
107	Decrease (2)	23x15px Moldova	0.699	Decrease 0.002
108	Decrease (1)	23x15px Botswana	0.698	Steady
109	Steady	23x15px Gabon	0.697	Increase 0.003
110	Steady	23x15px Paraguay	0.693	Increase 0.001
111	Steady	23x15px Cuba	0.691	Increase 0.003
111	Steady	23x15px Turkmenistan	0.691	Increase 0.003
113	Steady	23x15px Indonesia	0.689	Increase 0.003
114	Increase (1)	Template:Country data Palestine	0.684	Increase 0.006
115	Steady	23x15px Fiji	0.683	Increase 0.005
116	Decrease (2)	23x15px Philippines	0.682	Increase 0.003
117	Decrease (2)	23x15px El Salvador	0.680	Increase 0.002
118	Steady	23x15px Bolivia	0.674	Increase 0.003
119	Steady	23x15px North Korea	0.666	Increase 0.001
120	Steady	Template:Country data Kyrgyzstan	0.664	Increase 0.002
121	Steady	23x15px Iraq	0.649	Steady
122	Steady	23x15px Cape Verde	0.648	Increase 0.002
123	Steady	23x15px Bulgaria	0.647	Increase 0.002
124	Steady	23x15px Nicaragua	0.645	Increase 0.003
125	Increase (1)	23x15px Guatemala	0.640	Increase 0.003
125	Increase (1)	23x15px Namibia	0.640	Increase 0.003

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
127	Decrease (2)	23x15px Guyana	0.638	Steady
127	Decrease (1)	23x15px Micronesia	0.638	Increase 0.001
129	Steady	23x15px Tajikistan	0.627	Increase 0.002
130	Steady	23x15px Honduras	0.625	Increase 0.002
131	Steady	23x15px India	0.624	Increase 0.009
132	Steady	23x15px Bhutan	0.607	Increase 0.003
133	Steady	Template:Country data Timor Leste	0.605	Increase 0.002
134	Steady	23x15px Vanuatu	0.597	Decrease 0.001
135	Steady	23x15px Congo, Republic of the	0.592	Increase 0.003
135	Increase (2)	23x15px Equatorial Guinea	0.592	Increase 0.010
137	Decrease (1)	23x15px Kiribati	0.588	Increase 0.002
138	Decrease (1)	23x15px Laos	0.586	Increase 0.004
139	Increase (1)	23x15px Bangladesh	0.579	Increase 0.004
139	Increase (1)	23x15px Ghana	0.579	Increase 0.004
139	Steady	23x15px Zambia	0.579	Increase 0.003
142	Steady	23x15px São Tomé and Príncipe	0.574	Increase 0.009
143	Steady	23x15px Cambodia	0.563	Increase 0.005
144	Steady	File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal	0.558	Increase 0.003
145	Increase (1)	23x15px Myanmar	0.556	Increase 0.004
146	Increase (1)	23x15px Kenya	0.555	Increase 0.005
147	Increase (1)	23x15px Pakistan	0.550	Increase 0.002

Low human development

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
148	Increase (1)	23x15px Swaziland	0.541	Steady
149	Decrease (4)	23x15px Syria	0.536	Decrease 0.017
150	Steady	23x15px Angola	0.533	Increase 0.002
151	Increase (1)	23x15px Tanzania	0.531	Increase 0.012
152	Decrease (1)	23x15px Nigeria	0.527	Increase 0.002
153	Increase (1)	23x15px Cameroon	0.518	Increase 0.004
154	Decrease (1)	23x15px Papua New Guinea	0.516	Increase 0.001
154	Increase (4)	23x15px Zimbabwe	0.516	Increase 0.009
156	Decrease (1)	23x15px Solomon Islands	0.515	Increase 0.002
157	Decrease (2)	23x15px Mauritania	0.513	Steady
158	Decrease (1)	23x15px Madagascar	0.512	Increase 0.001
159	Increase (3)	23x15px Rwanda	0.498	Increase 0.005
160	Steady	23x15px Comoros	0.497	Decrease 0.001
160	Increase (1)	23x15px Lesotho	0.497	Increase 0.002
162	Increase (1)	23x15px Senegal	0.494	Increase 0.003
163	Increase (1)	23x15px Haiti	0.493	Increase 0.003
163	Increase (2)	23x15px Uganda	0.493	Increase 0.005
165	Steady	23x15px Sudan	0.490	Increase 0.002
166	Increase (1)	23x15px Togo	0.487	Increase 0.003
167	Increase (1)	23x15px Benin	0.485	Increase 0.004
168	Decrease (9)	23x15px Yemen	0.482	Decrease 0.017

Rank		Country	HDI
2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change in rank from previous year^[3]	Country	2016 estimates for 2015 ^[3]	Change from previous year ^[3]
169	Steady	23x15px Afghanistan	0.479	Steady
170	Steady	23x15px Malawi	0.476	Increase 0.003
171	Increase (1)	23x15px Côte d'Ivoire	0.474	Increase 0.008
172	Decrease (1)	23x15px Djibouti	0.473	Increase 0.003
173	Steady	23x15px Gambia	0.452	Increase 0.002
174	Steady	23x15px Ethiopia	0.448	Increase 0.007
175	Steady	23x15px Mali	0.442	Increase 0.004
176	Increase (2)	23x15px Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0.435	Increase 0.010
177	Steady	23x15px Liberia	0.427	Steady
178	Increase (1)	Template:Country data Guinea Bissau	0.424	Increase 0.003
179	Increase (2)	23x15px Eritrea	0.420	Increase 0.002
179	Decrease (3)	23x15px Sierra Leone	0.420	Decrease 0.011
181	Increase (1)	23x15px Mozambique	0.418	Increase 0.004
181	Decrease (2)	23x15px South Sudan	0.418	Decrease 0.003
183	Decrease (1)	23x15px Guinea	0.414	Steady
184	Steady	23x15px Burundi	0.404	Decrease 0.002
185	Steady	23x15px Burkina Faso	0.402	Increase 0.003
186	Steady	23x15px Chad	0.396	Increase 0.002
187	Steady	23x15px Niger	0.353	Increase 0.002
188	Steady	23x15px Central African Republic	0.352	Increase 0.005

List of countries by continent

Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
High human development
1	23x15px Mauritius	0.777
2	23x15px Seychelles	0.772
3	23x15px Algeria	0.736
4	23x15px Libya	0.724
5	23x15px Tunisia	0.721
Medium human development
6	23x15px Botswana	0.698
7	23x15px Egypt	0.690
8	23x15px Gabon	0.684
9	23x15px South Africa	0.666
10	23x15px Cape Verde	0.648

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Low human development
1	23x15px Central African Republic	0.352
2	23x15px Niger	0.353
3	23x15px Chad	0.396
4	23x15px Burkina Faso	0.402
5	23x15px Burundi	0.404
6	23x15px Guinea	0.411
7	23x15px South Sudan	0.418
7	23x15px Mozambique	0.418
9	23x15px Sierra Leone	0.420
9	23x15px Eritrea	0.420

Asia

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Singapore	0.925
2	23x15px Hong Kong	0.917
3	23x15px Japan	0.903
4	23x15px South Korea	0.901
5	23x15px Israel	0.899
6	23x15px Brunei Darussalam	0.865
7	23x15px Cyprus	0.856
7	23x15px Qatar	0.856
9	23x15px Saudi Arabia	0.847
10	23x15px United Arab Emirates	0.840

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Low human development
1	23x15px Afghanistan	0.479
2	23x15px Yemen	0.482
3	23x15px Syria	0.536
Medium human development
4	23x15px Pakistan	0.550
5	23x15px Myanmar	0.556
6	File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal	0.558
7	23x15px Cambodia	0.563
8	23x15px Bangladesh	0.579
9	23x15px Laos	0.586
10	Template:Country data Timor Leste	0.605

Europe

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Norway	0.949
2	23x16px Switzerland	0.939
3	23x15px Germany	0.926
4	23x15px Denmark	0.925
5	23x15px Netherlands	0.924
6	23x15px Ireland	0.923
7	23x15px Iceland	0.921
8	23x15px Sweden	0.913
9	23x15px Liechtenstein	0.912
10	23x15px United Kingdom	0.909

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Medium human development
1	23x15px Moldova	0.699
High human development
2	23x15px Ukraine	0.743
2	23x15px Armenia	0.743
3	23x15px Macedonia	0.748
4	23x15px Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.750
5	23x15px Azerbaijan	0.759
6	23x15px Albania	0.764
7	23x15px Turkey	0.767
8	23x15px Georgia	0.769
9	23x15px Serbia	0.776
10	23x15px Kazakhstan	0.794

North America and the Caribbean

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Canada	0.920
1	23x15px United States	0.920
High human development
3	23x15px Barbados	0.795
4	23x15px Bahamas	0.792
5	23x15px Antigua and Barbuda	0.786
6	23x15px Panama	0.788
7	23x15px Trinidad and Tobago	0.780
8	23x15px Costa Rica	0.776
9	23x15px Cuba	0.775
10	23x15px Mexico	0.762

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Low human development
1	23x15px Haiti	0.493
Medium human development
2	23x15px Honduras	0.625
3	23x15px Guatemala	0.640
4	23x15px Nicaragua	0.645
5	23x15px El Salvador	0.680
High human development
6	23x15px Belize	0.706
7	23x15px Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.722
7	23x15px Dominican Republic	0.722
9	23x15px Dominica	0.726
10	23x15px Jamaica	0.730

South America

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Chile	0.847
2	23x15px Argentina	0.827
High human development
3	23x15px Uruguay	0.795
4	23x15px Venezuela	0.767
5	23x15px Brazil	0.754
6	23x15px Peru	0.740
7	23x15px Ecuador	0.739
8	23x15px Colombia	0.727
9	23x15px Suriname	0.725
Medium human development
10	23x15px Paraguay	0.693

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Medium human development
1	23x15px Guyana	0.638
2	23x15px Bolivia	0.674
3	23x15px Paraguay	0.693
High human development
4	23x15px Suriname	0.725
5	23x15px Colombia	0.727
6	23x15px Ecuador	0.739
7	23x15px Peru	0.740
8	23x15px Brazil	0.754
9	23x15px Venezuela	0.767
10	23x15px Uruguay	0.795

Oceania

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Australia	0.939
2	23x15px New Zealand	0.915
High human development
3	23x15px Palau	0.788
4	23x15px Fiji	0.736
5	23x15px Tonga	0.721
6	23x15px Samoa	0.704
Medium human development
7	23x15px Micronesia	0.638
8	23x15px Vanuatu	0.597
9	23x15px Kiribati	0.588
Low human development
10	23x15px Papua New Guinea	0.516

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2015 estimates for 2014
Low human development
1	23x15px Solomon Islands	0.515
2	23x15px Papua New Guinea	0.516
Medium human development
3	23x15px Kiribati	0.588
4	23x15px Vanuatu	0.597
5	23x15px Micronesia	0.638
High human development
6	23x15px Samoa	0.704
7	23x15px Tonga	0.721
8	23x15px Fiji	0.736
9	23x15px Palau	0.788
Very high human development
10	23x15px New Zealand	0.915

List of countries by non-continental region

Arab League

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Qatar	0.856
2	23x15px Saudi Arabia	0.847
3	23x15px United Arab Emirates	0.840
4	23x15px Bahrain	0.824
5	23x15px Kuwait	0.800
High human development
6	23x15px Oman	0.796
7	23x15px Lebanon	0.763
8	23x15px Algeria	0.745
9	23x15px Jordan	0.741
10	23x15px Tunisia	0.725

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Low human development
1	23x15px Somalia	0.285 (2012 est.)
2	23x15px Djibouti	0.473
3	23x15px Yemen	0.482
4	23x15px Sudan	0.490
5	23x15px Comoros	0.497
6	23x15px Mauritania	0.513
7	23x15px Syria	0.536
Medium human development
8	23x15px Morocco	0.647
9	23x15px Iraq	0.649
10	Palestinian National Authorityborder\|20px\|class=noviewer\|baseline\|Flagge Palestinian National Authority Palestine Authority	0.684

Commonwealth of Nations

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Australia	0.939
2	23x15px Singapore	0.925
3	23x15px Canada	0.920
4	23x15px New Zealand	0.915
5	23x15px United Kingdom	0.909
6	23x15px Brunei Darussalam	0.865
7	23x15px Cyprus	0.856
7	23x15px Malta	0.856
High human development
9	23x15px Bahamas	0.795
10	23x15px Barbados	0.792

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Low human development
1	23x15px Mozambique	0.418
2	23x15px Sierra Leone	0.420
3	23x15px Gambia	0.452
4	23x15px Malawi	0.476
5	23x15px Uganda	0.493
6	23x15px Lesotho	0.497
7	23x15px Rwanda	0.498
8	23x15px Solomon Islands	0.515
9	23x15px Papua New Guinea	0.516
10	23x15px Cameroon	0.518

East Asia and the Pacific

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2015 estimates for 2014
Very high human development
1	23x15px Australia	0.939
2	23x15px Singapore	0.925
3	23x15px Hong Kong	0.917
4	23x15px New Zealand	0.915
5	23x15px Japan	0.903
6	23x15px South Korea	0.901
7	23x15px Brunei Darussalam	0.865
High human development
8	23x15px Malaysia	0.789
9	23x15px Palau	0.788
10	23x15px Thailand	0.740

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2015 estimates for 2014
Low human development
1	23x15px Solomon Islands	0.515
2	23x15px Papua New Guinea	0.516
Medium human development
3	23x15px Myanmar	0.556
4	23x15px Cambodia	0.563
5	23x15px Laos	0.586
6	23x15px Kiribati	0.588
7	23x15px Vanuatu	0.597
8	Template:Country data Timor Leste	0.605
9	23x15px Micronesia	0.638
10	23x15px Philippines	0.682

European Union

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
Very high human development
1	23x15px Germany	0.926
2	23x15px Denmark	0.925
3	23x15px Netherlands	0.924
4	23x15px Ireland	0.923
5	23x15px Sweden	0.913
6	23x15px United Kingdom	0.909
7	23x15px Luxembourg	0.898
8	23x15px France	0.897
9	23x15px Belgium	0.896
10	23x15px Finland	0.895

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	New 2016 estimates for 2015
High human development
1	23x15px Bulgaria	0.794
Very high human development
2	23x15px Romania	0.802
3	23x15px Croatia	0.827
4	23x15px Latvia	0.830
5	23x15px Hungary	0.836
6	23x15px Portugal	0.843
7	23x15px Slovakia	0.845
8	23x15px Lithuania	0.848
9	23x15px Poland	0.855
10	23x15px Malta	0.856

HDI by regions and groups

Region or group	2011 estimates HDI^[4]	2013 estimates HDI^[5]	2014 estimates HDI^[6]	2015 estimates HDI
Very high human development
Very High Human Development	0.889	0.905	0.890	0.892
OECD	0.873	0.887	0.874	0.887
High human development
Europe and Central Asia	0.751	0.771	0.738	0.756
Latin America and the Caribbean	0.731	0.741	0.740	0.751
High Human Development	0.741	0.758	0.735	0.746
East Asia and the Pacific	0.671 Increase	0.683	0.703	0.720
World	0.682 Increase	0.694	0.702	0.717
Medium human development
Arab states	0.641 Increase	0.652	0.682	0.687
Small Island Developing States	0.640 Increase	0.648	0.665	0.667
Medium Human Development	0.630 Increase	0.640	0.614	0.631
South Asia	0.548 Increase	0.558	0.588	0.621
Low human development
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.463 Increase	0.475	0.502	0.523
Least Developed countries	0.439 Increase	0.449	0.487	0.508
Low Human Development	0.456 Increase	0.466	0.493	0.497

Countries missing from latest report

UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year		Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data	Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Very high human development
2009	2008	23x15px San Marino	0.961	21	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Monaco	0.956	25	^[7]
High human development
2009	2008	23x15px Marshall Islands	0.738	155	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px North Korea	0.733	156	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Nauru	0.721	164	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Tuvalu	0.711	168	^[7]
Low human development
2009	2008	23x15px Somalia	0.364	229	^[7]

Note: 2009 publication uses old HDI formula

Non-UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year		Country or territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data	Country or territory	HDI	Rank	Source
High human development
N/A	2016	23x15px Kosovo	0.739	N/A	^[8]

Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)

Year		Country or territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data	Country or territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Very high human development
2017	2015	23x15px Macau	0.905	17	^[a]
2017	2015	23x15px Taiwan	0.885	27	^[b]
2017	2015	23x15px Puerto Rico	0.845	40	^[12]
2012	2010	23x15px Guadeloupe	0.822	39	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px Martinique	0.813	41	^[13]
2009	2008	23x15px Jersey	0.985	2	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Cayman Islands	0.983	4	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Bermuda	0.981	7	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Guernsey	0.975	9	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Gibraltar	0.961	20	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Norfolk Island	0.958	23	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Faroe Islands	0.950	33	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Isle of Man	0.950	34	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px British Virgin Islands	0.945	35	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Falkland Islands	0.933	43	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Aruba	0.908	49	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Guam	0.901	54	^[7]
High human development
2012	2010	40px New Caledonia	0.789	51	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px Wallis and Futuna	0.763	65	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.762	66	^[13]
2012	2010	25px Réunion	0.750	72	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px French Guiana	0.739	76	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px French Polynesia	0.737	77	^[13]
2012	2010	Saint Martin	0.702	n/a	^[13]
2009	2008	23x15px U.S. Virgin Islands	0.894	59	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Northern Mariana Islands	0.875	71	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Turks and Caicos Islands	0.873	72	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Greenland	0.869	76	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Anguilla	0.865	79	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Cook Islands	0.829	101	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px American Samoa	0.827	103	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Montserrat	0.821	106	^[7]
Medium human development
2012	2010	23x15px Saint Barthélemy	0.688	n/a	^[13]
2012	2010	23x15px Mayotte	0.653	104	^[13]
2009	2008	23x15px Saint Helena	0.797	125	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Niue	0.794	129	^[7]
2009	2008	23x15px Tokelau	0.750	149	^[7]

Notes

↑ The UN does not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI.^[9]
↑ 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^[10]). Taiwan's government calculated its HDI to be 0.885, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP.^[11]

References

↑ "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
↑ "The Human Development concept". UNDP. 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
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↑ "2011 Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. p. 151. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
↑ "The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World"". HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. pp. 144–147. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
↑ "Human Development Report 2014 – "Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience"". HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
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↑ "About Kosovo". UNDP. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
↑ "DSEC - 統計資料". www.dsec.gov.mo.
↑ "- Human Development Reports" (PDF). hdr.undp.org.
↑ "2017中華民國人類發展指數(HDI)" (Excel) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
↑ Fuentes-Ramírez, Ricardo R. (2017). "Human Development Index Trends and Inequality in Puerto Rico 2010-2015" (PDF). Ceteris Paribus: Journal of Socio-Economic Research 7. https://ceterisparibusuprm.org/volumen-actual/human-development-index-trends-and-inequality-in-puerto-rico-2010-2015-by-ricardo-r-fuentes-ramirez/. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
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[10] The UN does not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI.^[9]

[13] 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^[10]). Taiwan's government calculated its HDI to be 0.885, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP.^[11]

[1] "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 26 March 2009.

[2] "The Human Development concept". UNDP. 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011.

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[UNDP1-4] "2011 Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. p. 151. Retrieved 2 November 2011.

[UNDP2013-5] "The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World"". HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. pp. 144–147. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

[UNDP2014-6] "Human Development Report 2014 – "Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience"". HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 25 July 2014.

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[8] "About Kosovo". UNDP. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[9] "DSEC - 統計資料". www.dsec.gov.mo.

[11] "- Human Development Reports" (PDF). hdr.undp.org.

[12] "2017中華民國人類發展指數(HDI)" (Excel) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.

[14] Fuentes-Ramírez, Ricardo R. (2017). "Human Development Index Trends and Inequality in Puerto Rico 2010-2015" (PDF). Ceteris Paribus: Journal of Socio-Economic Research 7. https://ceterisparibusuprm.org/volumen-actual/human-development-index-trends-and-inequality-in-puerto-rico-2010-2015-by-ricardo-r-fuentes-ramirez/. Retrieved 15 May 2017.

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