HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2014 Sustaining Human Progress Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience
Human Development Index (HDI)
Life expectancy at birth
Mean years of schooling
Expected years of schooling
Value
(years)
(years)
(years)
(2011 PPP $)
Value
HDI rank
2013
2013
2012a
2012a
2013
2012
186 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 187 Niger OTHER COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES Korea, Democratic People’s Rep. of Marshall Islands Monaco Nauru San Marino Somalia South Sudan Tuvalu Human Development Index groups Very high human development High human development Medium human development Low human development Regions Arab States East Asia and the Pacific Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Least developed countries Small island developing states World
0.338 0.337
50.0 58.4
3.1 1.4
9.7 5.4
444 873
0.333 0.335
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70.0 72.6 .. .. .. 55.1 55.3 ..
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
.. .. .. 9.3 15.3 .. .. 10.8
.. 4,206 .. .. .. .. 1,450 5,151
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0.890 0.735 0.614 0.493
80.2 74.5 67.9 59.4
11.7 8.1 5.5 4.2
16.3 13.4 11.7 9.0
40,046 13,231 5,960 2,904
0.889 0.733 0.612 0.490
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0.682 0.703 0.738 0.740 0.588 0.502 0.487 0.665 0.702
70.2 74.0 71.3 74.9 67.2 56.8 61.5 70.0 70.8
6.3 7.4 9.6 7.9 4.7 4.8 3.9 7.5 7.7
11.8 12.5 13.6 13.7 11.2 9.7 9.4 11.0 12.2
15,817 10,499 12,415 13,767 5,195 3,152 2,126 9,471 13,723
0.681 0.699 0.735 0.739 0.586 0.499 0.484 0.663 0.700
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NOTES a Data refer to 2012 or the most recent year available.
l Based on data on school life expectancy from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013a). m Projected growth rate based on ECLAC (2013).
b Updated by HDRO based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013b).
n Based on data on school life expectancy from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012).
c Calculated by the Singapore Ministry of Education.
o Based on the estimate of educational attainment distribution from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013b).
d Value from UNDESA (2011). e Assumes the same adult mean years of schooling as Switzerland before the most recent update.
p Based on cross-country regression.
f Estimated using the purchasing power parity (PPP) rate and the projected growth rate of Switzerland.
q HDRO calculations based on data from the National Institute for Educational Studies of Brazil (2013).
g For the purpose of calculating the HDI, GNI per capita is capped at $75,000.
r Based on data from United Nations Children’s Fund Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for 2005–2012.
h Based on PPP conversion rates for GDP from World Bank (2014) and on GDP deflators and GNI per capita in national currency from United Nations Statistics Division (2014).
s Based on data from household surveys in the World Bank’s International Income Distribution Database.
i Assumes the same adult mean years of schooling as Spain before the most recent update. j Estimated using the PPP rate and the projected growth rate of Spain. k Based on data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2011).
t HDRO calculations based on data from Samoa Bureau of Statistics (n.d.). u Based on projected growth rates from UNESCWA (2013). v Unpublished provisional estimate from an October 2013 communication note from the United Nations Population Division.
Gross national income Human Development (GNI) per capita Index (HDI)
w Based on data from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted by ICF Macro. DEFINITIONS Human Development Index (HDI): A composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development—a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living. See Technical note 1 at http://hdr.undp.org for details on how the HDI is calculated. Life expectancy at birth: Number of years a newborn infant could expect to live if prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality rates at the time of birth stay the same throughout the infant’s life. Mean years of schooling: Average number of years of education received by people ages 25 and older, converted from education attainment levels using official durations of each level.
Change in rank
2012–2013
1 –1
its production and its ownership of factors of production, less the incomes paid for the use of factors of production owned by the rest of the world, converted to international dollars using PPP rates, divided by midyear population. MAIN DATA SOURCES Columns 1 and 6: HDRO calculations based on data from UNDESA (2013a), Barro and Lee (2013), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013b), United Nations Statistics Division (2014), World Bank (2014) and IMF (2014). Column 2: UNDESA 2013a. Column 3: Barro and Lee (2013), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013b) and HDRO estimates based on data on educational attainment from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013b) and on methodology from Barro and Lee (2013). Column 4: UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2013b.
Expected years of schooling: Number of years of schooling that a child of school entrance age can expect to receive if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout the child’s life.
Column 5: HDRO calculations based on data from World Bank (2014), IMF (2014) and United Nations Statistics Division (2014).
Gross national income (GNI) per capita: Aggregate income of an economy generated by
Column 7: Calculations based on data in columns 1 and 6.
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