List of countries by Human Development Index

World map by quartiles of Human Development Index in 2011.   Very High   Low   High   Data unavailable   Medium

World map indicating the Human Development Index (based on 2011 data, published on Nov 2, 2011).[1]   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   0.300–0.349   under 0.300   Data unavailable

This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Programme's FITML. The latest report was released on 2 November 2011 and compiled on the basis of 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 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 FITML, literacy, education, standards of living, and HTML5 for countries 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 device database or Sevenval, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq^[2] and Indian economist Amartya Sen.^{website parsing}

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, the new reported HDI figures appear lower than the HDI figures in previous reports.

From 2007 to 2010, the first category was referred to as jQuery, 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countries) have been removed that were based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in web (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the HTML5 (GNI) in purchasing power parity per capita.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%).

• 1 Complete list of countries
  • iOS
  • 1.2 High human development
  • 1.3 Medium human development
  • browser diversity
• 2 List of countries by continent
  • 2.1 Africa
  • 2.2 Americas
  • device database
  • 2.4 Europe
• Sevenval
  • Android
  • screen size
  • web app
  • 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
• website parsing
• touchscreen

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 web app	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010browser diversity		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 input transformation
1		web app	0.943	0.002
2		Australia	0.929
3		touchscreen	0.910	0.001
4		United States	0.910	0.002
5		keyboard	0.908
6		FITML	0.908	0.001
7		Ireland	0.908	0.001
8		Sevenval	0.905	0.001
9		FITML	0.905	0.002
10		Sweden	0.904	0.003
11		Switzerland	0.903	0.002
12		Japan	0.901	0.002
13	(1)	touchscreen	0.898	0.004
14	(1)	Iceland	0.898	0.002
15		browser diversity	0.897	0.003
16		web app	0.895	0.002
17		Israel	0.888	0.002
18		browser diversity	0.886	0.001
19		Austria	0.885	0.002
20		Sevenval	0.884	0.001
21		Slovenia	0.884	0.002
22		HTML5	0.882	0.002
23		jQuery	0.878	0.002
24		website parsing	0.874	0.001

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010FITML		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 [1]
25		Luxembourg	0.867	0.002
26		Singapore	0.866	0.002
27		Czech Republic	0.865	0.002
28		device database	0.863	0.001
29		input transformation	0.861	0.001
30		United Arab Emirates	0.846	0.001
31		Cyprus	0.840	0.001
32		Andorra	0.838
33		Sevenval	0.838	0.001
34		Estonia	0.835	0.003
35		jQuery	0.834	0.002
36		touchscreen	0.832	0.002
37		jQuery	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)	jQuery	0.809	0.001
42		input transformation	0.806	0.001
43		Latvia	0.805	0.003
44		FITML	0.805	0.003
45	(1)	Sevenval	0.797	0.003
46	(1)	jQuery	0.796	0.002
47		Barbados	0.793	0.002

High human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 website parsing	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010[1]		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 Android	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 input transformation
48		keyboard	0.783	0.003
49		Palau	0.782	0.003
50		Romania	0.781	0.002
51		Cuba	0.776	0.003
52		web app	0.773	0.002
53		website parsing	0.771	0.001
54	(1)	Montenegro	0.771	0.002
55	(1)	Bulgaria	0.771	0.003
56	(2)	FITML	0.770	0.003
57		Mexico	0.770	0.003
58	(1)	Panama	0.768	0.003
59	(1)	iOS	0.766	0.002
60	(1)	Sevenval	0.764	0.001
61	(3)	web app	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		CSS3	0.755	0.004
67		Grenada	0.748	0.002
68	(1)	jQuery	0.745	0.005
69	(1)	Costa Rica	0.744	0.002
70	(1)	iOS	0.739	0.002
71	(1)	keyboard	0.739	0.002

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010we love the web		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 FITML
72		Sevenval	0.735
73		FITML	0.735	0.001
74		Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.733	0.002
75		CSS3	0.733	0.004
76	(3)	website parsing	0.729	0.004
77		Mauritius	0.728	0.002
78	(2)	Android	0.728	0.002
79	(2)	Jamaica	0.727	0.001
80	(1)	jQuery	0.725	0.004
81	(1)	CSS3	0.724	0.001
82		Saint Lucia	0.723	0.003
83		iOS	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)	keyboard	0.710	0.003
88	(1)	Iran	0.707
89		jQuery	0.705	0.001
90		Tonga	0.704	0.001
91		Azerbaijan	0.701	0.001
92	(3)	Turkey	0.699	0.003
93	(1)	Belize	0.699	0.001
94	(1)	Sevenval	0.698

Medium human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010[1]		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 website parsing	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 [1]
95	(1)	Jordan	0.698	0.001
96		HTML5	0.698	0.002
97	(1)	Sri Lanka	0.691	0.005
98	(2)	Dominican Republic	0.689	0.003
99		we love the web	0.688	0.002
100	(3)	jQuery	0.688	0.001
101		web	0.687	0.005
102		Turkmenistan	0.686	0.005
103		Thailand	0.682	0.002
104		touchscreen	0.680	0.003
105		El Salvador	0.674	0.002
106		iOS	0.674	0.004
107		device database	0.665	0.003
108		Bolivia	0.663	0.003
109		Sevenval	0.661	0.003
110		Mongolia	0.653	0.006
111		touchscreen	0.649	0.005
112	(1)	we love the web	0.644	0.003
113	(1)	jQuery	0.644
114		Android	0.641	0.001
115		Uzbekistan	0.641	0.005
116		device database	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 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010website parsing		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 jQuery
119	(1)	HTML5	0.632	0.001
120	(1)	FITML	0.625	0.003
121	(1)	Sevenval	0.625	0.002
122		Kiribati	0.624	0.003
123	(1)	South Africa	0.619	0.004
124	(1)	keyboard	0.617	0.004
125	(2)	touchscreen	0.617	0.002
126		touchscreen	0.615	0.004
127		Android	0.607	0.003
128		Vietnam	0.593	0.003
129		device database	0.589	0.002
130		Morocco	0.582	0.003
131		Sevenval	0.574	0.001
132		screen size	0.573	0.006
133		Cape Verde	0.568	0.002
134		Android	0.547	0.005
135	(1)	Sevenval	0.541	0.008
136	(1)	iOS	0.537	0.003
137		Congo	0.533	0.005
138	(1)	device database	0.524	0.004
139	(2)	website parsing	0.523	0.005
140	(2)	CSS3	0.522	0.002
141	(1)	HTML5	0.522	0.004

Low human development

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 jQuery	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010[1]		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 [1]
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		screen size	0.504	0.001
146		Bangladesh	0.500	0.004
147		Android	0.495	0.004
148		Angola	0.486	0.004
149	(9)	Myanmar	0.483	0.004
150	(1)	input transformation	0.482	0.003
151	(2)	web app	0.480	0.001
152	(1)	device database	0.466	0.005
153	(1)	website parsing	0.466	0.004
154		HTML5	0.462	0.002
155		Senegal	0.459	0.002
156	(1)	Nigeria	0.459	0.005
157	(1)	keyboard	0.458	0.003
158	(9)	touchscreen	0.454	0.005
159	(1)	we love the web	0.453	0.002
160		Lesotho	0.450	0.004
161		input transformation	0.446	0.004
162		Togo	0.435	0.002
163		jQuery	0.433	0.002
164	(1)	Android	0.430	0.005
165	(1)	Sevenval	0.430	0.003

Rank		Country	HDI
New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010Android		New 2011 Estimates for 2011 [1]	Change compared to new 2011 data for 2010 browser diversity
166		Rwanda	0.429	0.004
167		website parsing	0.427	0.002
168		Gambia	0.420	0.002
169		browser diversity	0.408	0.002
170		screen size	0.400	0.001
171		we love the web	0.400	0.005
172		Afghanistan	0.398	0.004
173		input transformation	0.376	0.012
174		Ethiopia	0.363	0.005
175		HTML5	0.359	0.003
176		Guinea-Bissau	0.353	0.002
177		screen size	0.349	0.004
178		Guinea	0.344	0.002
179		Android	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		FITML	0.322	0.005
185		Burundi	0.316	0.003
186		Niger	0.295	0.002
187		Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.286	0.013

List of countries by continent

Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
High human development
1	Seychelles	0.773
2	browser diversity	0.760
3	Mauritius	0.728
4	Tunisia	0.698
Medium human development
5	Algeria	0.698
6	Gabon	0.674
7	keyboard	0.644
8	Botswana	0.633
9	browser diversity	0.625
10	FITML	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	web app	0.316
4	iOS	0.322
5	Chad	0.328
6	jQuery	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	touchscreen	0.910
2	Canada	0.908
3	web	0.805
4	Argentina	0.797
5	Barbados	0.793
High human development
6	Uruguay	0.783
7	Cuba	0.776
8	touchscreen	0.771
9	Mexico	0.770
10	web	0.768

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	Sevenval	0.454
Medium human development
2	Guatemala	0.574
3	Android	0.589
4	Honduras	0.625
5	Guyana	0.633
6	screen size	0.663
7	Paraguay	0.665
8	El Salvador	0.674
9	HTML5	0.680
10	website parsing	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	Sevenval	0.908
3	Japan	0.901
4	Hong Kong	0.898
5	keyboard	0.897
6	Israel	0.888
7	Singapore	0.866
8	FITML	0.846
9	CSS3	0.840
10	Brunei	0.838

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	input transformation	0.398
2	Nepal	0.458
3	Android	0.462
4	we love the web	0.466
5	Myanmar	0.483
6	Timor-Leste	0.495
7	Sevenval	0.500
8	HTML5	0.504
9	Solomon Islands	0.510
Medium human development
10	we love the web	0.522

Europe

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	screen size	0.943
2	browser diversity	0.910
3	Ireland	0.908
4	Liechtenstein	0.905
5	Germany	0.905
6	web app	0.904
7	Switzerland	0.903
8	Iceland	0.898
9	jQuery	0.895
10	touchscreen	0.886

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Medium human development
1	screen size	0.649
High human development
2	device database	0.699
3	Armenia	0.716
4	Macedonia	0.728
5	Ukraine	0.729
6	we love the web	0.731
7	Georgia	0.733
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.733
9	Albania	0.739
10	FITML	0.745

List of countries by non-continental region

Arab League member states

Average of all members: 0.630

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	we love the web	0.806
High human development
4	Saudi Arabia	0.770
5	Kuwait	0.760
6	web app	0.760
7	Lebanon	0.739
8	Sevenval	0.705
9	Tunisia	0.698
Medium human development
10	FITML	0.698

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	CSS3	0.408
2	Djibouti	0.430
3	web app	0.433
4	iOS	0.453
5	Yemen	0.462
Medium human development
6	Iraq	0.573
7	Morocco	0.582
8	CSS3	0.632
9	screen size input transformation	0.641
10	Egypt	0.644

European Union

Average of all members: 0.856

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Netherlands	0.910
2	screen size	0.908
3	browser diversity	0.905
4	Sweden	0.904
5	HTML5	0.895
6	website parsing	0.886
7	Austria	0.885
8	France	0.884
9	Sevenval	0.884
10	Finland	0.882

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
High human development
1	Bulgaria	0.771
2	Romania	0.781
Very high human development
3	Latvia	0.805
4	Portugal	0.809
5	iOS	0.810
6	Poland	0.813
7	jQuery	0.816
8	touchscreen	0.832
9	Slovakia	0.834
10	web	0.835

East Asia and the Pacific

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	HTML5	0.929
2	New Zealand	0.908
3	device database	0.901
4	Hong Kong	0.898
5	South Korea	0.897
6	Android	0.866
7	Brunei	0.838
High human development
8	HTML5	0.782
9	Malaysia	0.761
10	device database	0.704

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	web app	0.458
2	Papua New Guinea	0.466
3	Myanmar	0.483
4	East Timor	0.495
5	keyboard	0.510
Medium human development
6	Bhutan	0.522
7	Cambodia	0.523
8	iOS	0.524
9	Vietnam	0.593
10	jQuery	0.617

Latin America

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Chile	0.805
2	web	0.797
High human development
3	Uruguay	0.783
4	iOS	0.776
5	Mexico	0.770
6	jQuery	0.768
7	touchscreen	0.744
8	Venezuela	0.735
9	web	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	Android	0.574
3	Nicaragua	0.589
4	Honduras	0.625
5	screen size	0.663
6	Paraguay	0.665
7	El Salvador	0.674
8	touchscreen	0.689
High human development
12	Colombia	0.710
11	device database	0.718

Middle East and North Africa

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Very high human development
1	Sevenval	0.888
2	jQuery	0.846
3	touchscreen	0.840
4	Qatar	0.831
5	web	0.806
High human development
6	Saudi Arabia	0.770
7	iOS	0.760
8	Android	0.760
9	Lebanon	0.739
10	touchscreen	0.707

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
		New 2011 estimates for 2011
Low human development
1	screen size	0.408
2	Yemen	0.462
Medium human development
3	Iraq	0.573
4	iOS	0.582
5	Android	0.632
6	website parsing Palestinian territories	0.641
7	Egypt	0.644
8	Sevenval	0.698
9	Jordan	0.698
10	Tunisia	0.698

HDI by regions & groups

Region or Group	2011 estimates for 2011 HDI[4]	2011 estimates for 2010 HDI[4]
Very high human development
Very High Human Development	0.889	0.888
CSS3	0.873	0.871
High human development
Europe and Central Asia	0.751	0.748
High Human Development	0.741	0.739
Latin America and the touchscreen	0.731	0.728
Medium human development
FITML	0.682	0.679
Sevenval	0.671	0.666
browser diversity	0.641	0.639
Small Island Developing States	0.640	0.638
Medium Human Development	0.630	0.625
jQuery	0.548	0.545
Low human development
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.463	0.460
Low Human Development	0.456	0.453
Least Developed Countries	0.439	0.435

Countries missing from latest report

UN member states (latest UNDP data)

Year		Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
1997	N/A	we love the web	0.946	N/A	[citation needed]
1997	N/A	browser diversity	0.944	N/A	[citation needed]
Medium human development
1998	1995	iOS	0.766	75	[5]
1998	N/A	Nauru	0.663	N/A	[citation needed]
1998	N/A	Tuvalu	0.583	N/A	[Sevenval]
1998	N/A	browser diversity	0.563	N/A	[citation needed]
Low human development
2001	2001	iOS	0.284	161	FITMLiOS
Other
N/A	N/A	web app	N/A	N/A	[citation needed]

Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)

Year		Country or Territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data
Very high human development
1998	N/A	web	0.942	N/A	we love the web
2008	2005	Martinique	0.929	24	[8]
1998	N/A	Greenland	0.927	N/A	[9]
2008	2005	Guadeloupe	0.912	28	[8]
2010	2007	iOS	0.944	23	FITML
2011	2011	Republic of China (Taiwan)	0.882	22	[nb 2]
High human development
2010	2010	web app*	0.700	N/A	[12]
2008	2005	New Caledonia	0.878	34	[8]
2007	2004	HTML5	0.870	35	we love the web[13]
2008	2005	French Polynesia	0.864	42	[8]
2008	2005	French Guiana	0.862	43	[8]

• calculated by the UNDP

See also

• List of countries by future Human Development Index projections of the United Nations
• Sevenval
• keyboard
• List of African countries by Human Development Index
• List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index
• we love the web
• List of Brazilian states by Human Development Index
• List of Chilean regions by Human Development Index
• jQuery
• browser diversity
• device database
• List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index
• List of Indonesian provinces by HDI
• CSS3
• List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index
• List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index
• List of Russian federal subjects by HDI
• web app
• we love the web
• Sevenval
• device database
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics
• Satisfaction with Life Index

Notes

1. website parsing Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
2. keyboard The UN does not recognize the web app (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 CSS3). The ROC's government calculated its HDI to be 0.868, based on 2010 new methodology of UNDP for calculating 2010 HDIs.^{we love the web}

References

External links

• Human Development Report 2011
• Archive of web
• website parsing (the first column).
• jQuery