Human Development Index trends, 1980–2011 Human Development Index (HDI) HDI rank
table
2
184 185 186 187
Mozambique Burundi Niger Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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
Value
Changea
(%)
1990
2000
2005
2009
2010
2011
.. 0.200 0.177 0.282
0.200 0.250 0.193 0.289
0.245 0.245 0.229 0.224
0.285 0.267 0.265 0.260
0.312 0.308 0.285 0.277
0.317 0.313 0.293 0.282
0.322 0.316 0.295 0.286
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
.. 1.49 1.67 0.05
2.28 1.12 2.05 –0.04
2.49 2.33 2.33 2.25
0.766 0.614 b 0.420 b 0.316
0.810 0.648 b 0.480 0.347
0.858 0.687 0.548 0.383
0.876 0.716 0.587 0.422
0.885 0.734 0.618 0.448
0.888 0.739 0.625 0.453
0.889 0.741 0.630 0.456
— — — —
— — — —
0.48 0.61 1.31 1.19
0.44 0.64 1.30 1.31
0.33 0.70 1.28 1.59
0.444 0.428 b 0.644 b 0.582 0.356 0.365 0.288 b 0.529 b 0.558 b
0.516 0.498 b 0.680 b 0.624 0.418 0.383 0.320 b 0.565 b 0.594
0.578 0.581 0.695 0.680 0.468 0.401 0.363 0.596 b 0.634
0.609 0.622 0.728 0.703 0.510 0.431 0.401 0.616 0.660
0.634 0.658 0.744 0.722 0.538 0.456 0.431 0.635 0.676
0.639 0.666 0.748 0.728 0.545 0.460 0.435 0.638 0.679
0.641 0.671 0.751 0.731 0.548 0.463 0.439 0.640 0.682
— — — — — — — — —
— — — — — — — — —
1.19 1.46 0.50 0.73 1.40 0.77 1.37 0.62 0.65
1.04 1.43 0.47 0.76 1.31 0.90 1.51 0.59 0.66
0.94 1.31 0.71 0.66 1.45 1.31 1.73 0.65 0.66
DEFINITION 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 for details on how the HDI is calculated. MAIN DATA SOURCES Columns 1–7: HDRO calculations based on data from UNDESA (2011), Barro and Lee (2010b), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2011), World Bank (2011a), UNSD (2011) and IMF (2011). Columns 8–12: Calculated based on Human Development Index values in the relevant year.
human development report 2011
Average annual HDI growth
1980
NOTES a. A positive value indicates improvement in rank. b. Based on less than half the countries in the group or region.
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HDI rank
2006–2011 2010–2011 1980–2011 1990–2011 2000–2011