This is a list of countries by the Human Development Index as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report organized by continent or other international regions. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary index assessing countries on 3 dimensions, health, education and standard of living using life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI PPP per capita. The final HDI is a value between 0 and 1 with countries grouped into four categories depending on the value, very high for HDI of 0.800 and above, high from 0.700 to 0.799, medium from 0.550 to 0.699 and low below 0.550.[1][2][3]
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Rank | Country | HDI | |
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2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings | |||
Very high human development | |||
1 | Australia | 0.946 | |
2 | New Zealand | 0.939 | |
High human development | |||
3 | Palau | 0.797 | |
4 | Tonga | 0.739 | |
5 | Marshall Islands | 0.731 | |
6 | Fiji | 0.729 | |
7 | Samoa | 0.702 | |
Medium human development | |||
8 | Nauru | 0.698 | |
9 | Tuvalu | 0.653 | |
10 | Micronesia | 0.634 | |
11 | Kiribati | 0.628 | |
12 | Vanuatu | 0.607 | |
13 | Papua New Guinea | 0.568 | |
14 | Solomon Islands | 0.562 |
Rank | Country | HDI | |
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2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings | |||
Very high human development | |||
1 | Chile | 0.860 | |
2 | Argentina | 0.849 | |
3 | Uruguay | 0.830 | |
High human development | |||
4 | Ecuador | 0.765 | |
5 | Peru | 0.762 | |
6 | Brazil | 0.760 | |
7 | Colombia | 0.758 | |
8 | Guyana | 0.742 | |
9 | Paraguay | 0.731 | |
Medium human development | |||
10 | Venezuela | 0.699 | |
11 | Bolivia | 0.698 | |
12 | Suriname | 0.690 |
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