List of countries by Human Development Index (2009)

This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report released on 5 October 2009, compiled on the basis of data from 2007. It covers 180 UN member states (out of 192), along with Hong Kong (SAR of China) and the Palestinian territories. Twelve 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 life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living 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 developing or an underdeveloped country, 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 and Indian economist Amartya Sen.^[1]

Countries fall into four broad human development categories based on their HDI:

Division	Numerical range of HDI	Map legend color
Very high	1.000 - 0.900	▇
High	0.899 - 0.800	▇
Medium	0.799 - 0.500	▇
Low	0.499 - 0.000	▇

Starting in the report for 2007, the first category is referred to as developed countries, and the last three are all grouped in developing countries. The original "very high human development" (0.8 to 1) 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been removed that were based on the gross national income (GNI) in purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and have been replaced by another index based on the gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity per capita.

Complete list of countries[edit]

= 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.
This revision of the index was released on 5 October 2009 and covers the period up to 2007.
The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the country has climbed (up or down) relative to the revised estimates for 2006, released on 5 October 2009.

Very high human development (developed countries)[edit]

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data ^[2]^{[nb 1]}	Change compared to 2006 data ^{[nb 1]}^[2]
1		Norway	0.971	0.001
2		Australia	0.970	0.002
3		Iceland	0.969	0.002
4		Canada	0.966	0.001
5		Ireland	0.965	0.001
6	(1)	Netherlands	0.964	0.003
7	(1)	Sweden	0.963	0.002
8	(3)	France	0.961	0.003
9		Switzerland	0.960	0.001
10		Japan	0.960	0.002
11	(3)	Luxembourg	0.960	0.001
12	(1)	Finland	0.959	0.004
13	(1)	United States	0.956	0.001
14	(2)	Austria	0.955	0.003
15		Spain	0.955	0.003
16	(2)	Denmark	0.955	0.002
17		Belgium	0.953	0.002
18	(1)	Italy	0.951	0.001
19	(1)	Liechtenstein	0.951	0.001

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
20		New Zealand	0.950	0.002
21		United Kingdom	0.947	0.002
22		Germany	0.947	0.002
23	(1)	Singapore	0.944	0.002
24	(1)	Hong Kong	0.944	0.001
25		Greece	0.942	0.004
26		South Korea	0.937	0.004
27	(1)	Israel	0.935	0.003
28	(1)	Andorra	0.934	0.001
29		Slovenia	0.929	0.005
30		Brunei	0.920	0.001
31		Kuwait	0.916	0.004
32		Cyprus	0.914	0.003
33	(1)	Qatar	0.910	0.005
34	(1)	Portugal	0.909	0.002
35	(2)	United Arab Emirates	0.903	0.007
36		Czech Republic	0.903	0.004
37	(2)	Barbados	0.903	0.004
38	(3)	Malta	0.902	0.003

High human development (emerging countries)[edit]

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
39	(1)	Bahrain	0.899	0.001
40		Estonia	0.893	0.005
41	(1)	Poland	0.892	0.004
42	(2)	Slovakia	0.890	0.007
43	(2)	Hungary	0.889	0.001
44	(1)	Chile	0.885	0.004
45	(5)	Brazil	0.879	0.005
46		Croatia	0.875	0.004
47		Lithuania	0.870	0.005
48	(1)	Antigua and Barbuda	0.868	0.008
49	(2)	Latvia	0.866	0.007
50	(2)	Argentina	0.866	0.005
51	(1)	Uruguay	0.865	0.005
52		Cuba	0.863	0.007
53		Bahamas	0.856	0.002
54	(1)	Mexico	0.854	0.005
55	(1)	Costa Rica	0.854	0.005
56	(1)	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	0.847	0.011
57	(1)	Oman	0.846	0.003
58		Seychelles	0.845	0.004
59	(4)	Venezuela	0.844	0.011
60	(1)	Saudi Arabia	0.843	0.003
61	(1)	Panama	0.840	0.007
62	(2)	Bulgaria	0.840	0.005

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
63	(2)	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.838	0.003
64	(1)	Romania	0.837	0.005
65	(1)	Trinidad and Tobago	0.837	0.005
66		Montenegro	0.834	0.006
67		Malaysia	0.829	0.004
68		Serbia	0.826	0.005
69	(1)	Belarus	0.826	0.007
70	(1)	Saint Lucia	0.821
71		Turkey	0.820	0.009
72	(2)	Russia	0.817^{[nb 2]}	0.011
73		Macedonia	0.817	0.004
74	(2)	Dominica	0.814
75		Grenada	0.813	0.003
76		Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.812	0.005
77	(5)	Colombia	0.807	0.007
78	(5)	Peru	0.806	0.007
79	(1)	Albania	0.804
80	(3)	Ecuador	0.802	0.001
81	(2)	Mauritius	0.802	0.003
82	(1)	Kazakhstan	0.801	0.003
83	(3)	Lebanon	0.800	0.003

Medium human development (developing countries)[edit]

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
84	(1)	Iran	0.798	0.001
85	(1)	Philippines	0.796	0.007
86	(2)	Azerbaijan	0.787	0.014
87	(1)	Thailand	0.783	0.003
88	(1)	Iraq	0.785	0.005
89	(2)	Georgia	0.778	0.010
90	(1)	Dominican Republic	0.777	0.006
91	(2)	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.772	0.005
92	(7)	China^{[nb 3]}	0.772	0.009
93	(3)	Belize	0.772	0.002
94	(2)	Samoa	0.771	0.005
95	(2)	Maldives	0.771	0.006
96	(1)	Jordan	0.770	0.003
97	(1)	Suriname	0.769	0.004
98	(2)	Tunisia	0.769	0.006
99	(5)	Tonga	0.768	0.001
100	(37)	Jamaica	0.766	0.029
101		Paraguay	0.761	0.004
102		Sri Lanka	0.759	0.004
103		Gabon	0.755	0.005
104		Algeria	0.754	0.005
105		Ukraine	0.751	0.004
106		El Salvador	0.747	0.001
107	(2)	Moldova	0.745
108	(1)	Fiji	0.741	0.003
109	(19)	Turkmenistan	0.739
110		Palestinian Authority	0.737
111		Indonesia	0.734	0.005
112		Honduras	0.732	0.019
113		India	0.731	0.009
114		Guyana	0.729	0.008
115	(1)	Mongolia	0.727	0.007
116	(1)	Vietnam	0.725	0.005
117		Syria	0.720	0.017
118		Equatorial Guinea	0.719	0.007
119		Uzbekistan	0.710	0.004
120		Kyrgyzstan	0.710	0.005
121		Cape Verde	0.708	0.004

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
122	(1)	Guatemala	0.704	0.008
123	(1)	Egypt	0.703	0.003
124		Nicaragua	0.699	0.003
125	(1)	Botswana	0.694	0.011
126	(1)	Vanuatu	0.693	0.005
127		Tajikistan	0.688	0.005
128	(1)	Namibia	0.686	0.008
129	(1)	South Africa	0.683	0.003
130		Zambia	0.652	0.056
131		São Tomé and Príncipe	0.651	0.006
132	(1)	Bhutan	0.619	0.011
133	(1)	Laos	0.619	0.006
134		Bolivia	0.609	0.001
135		Solomon Islands	0.605	0.006
136		Republic of the Congo	0.601	0.002
137		Cambodia	0.593	0.009
138		Myanmar	0.586	0.002
139		Comoros	0.576	0.003
140	(1)	Yemen	0.575	0.007
141	(1)	Pakistan	0.572	0.004
142	(2)	Swaziland	0.572	0.003
143		Angola	0.564	0.012
144		Nepal	0.553	0.006
145		Madagascar	0.543	0.006
146	(2)	Bangladesh	0.543	0.008
147		Kenya	0.541	0.006
148	(2)	Papua New Guinea	0.541	0.005
149		Haiti	0.532	0.006
150		Sudan	0.531	0.005
151		Tanzania	0.530	0.011
152	(2)	Ghana	0.526	0.008
153	(1)	Cameroon	0.523	0.004
154	(1)	Mauritania	0.520	0.001
155		Djibouti	0.520	0.003
156		Lesotho	0.514	0.003
157	(1)	Uganda	0.514	0.009
158		Nigeria	0.500	0.001

Low human development (undeveloped countries)[edit]

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
159		Togo	0.499	0.001
160	(1)	Malawi	0.493	0.009
161	(1)	Benin	0.492	0.005
162		Timor-Leste	0.489	0.005
163		Côte d'Ivoire	0.484	0.002
164		Eritrea	0.472	0.005
165		Senegal	0.464	0.002
166		Rwanda	0.460	0.005
167		Gambia	0.456	0.003
168		Liberia	0.442	0.008
169		Guinea	0.435	0.002

Rank		Country	HDI
2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
170		Ethiopia	0.414	0.012
171		Mozambique	0.402	0.005
172	(1)	Guinea-Bissau	0.396	0.005
173	(1)	Burundi	0.394	0.007
174	(2)	Chad	0.392	0.001
175	(1)	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.389	0.018
176	(1)	Burkina Faso	0.389	0.005
177	(1)	Mali	0.371	0.005
178	(1)	Central African Republic	0.369	0.002
179		Sierra Leone	0.365	0.008
180		Afghanistan	0.352	0.002
181		Niger	0.298	0.016

List of countries by continent[edit]

Africa[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
High human development
1	Libya	0.847	+0.005
2	Seychelles	0.845	+0.004
3	Mauritius	0.804	+0.003
Medium human development
4	Tunisia	0.769	+0.006
5	Gabon	0.755	+0.005
6	Algeria	0.754	+0.005
7	Equatorial Guinea	0.719	+0.007
8	Cape Verde	0.708	+0.004
9	Egypt	0.703	+0.003
10	Botswana	0.694	+0.011

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Low human development
1	Niger	0.340	+0.007
2	Sierra Leone	0.365	+0.008
3	Central African Republic	0.369	+0.002
4	Mali	0.371	+0.005
5	Burkina Faso	0.389	+0.005
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.389	+0.018
7	Chad	0.392	-0.001
8	Burundi	0.394	+0.007
9	Guinea-Bissau	0.396	+0.005
10	Mozambique	0.402	+0.005

Americas[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Canada	0.966	+0.001
2	United States	0.956	+0.001
3	Barbados	0.903	+0.004
High human development
4	Chile	0.885	+0.004
5	Brazil	0.879	+0.009
6	Antigua and Barbuda	0.868	+0.008
7	Argentina	0.866	+0.005
8	Uruguay	0.865	+0.005
9	Cuba	0.863	+0.007
10	Bahamas	0.856	+0.002

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Medium human development
1	Haiti	0.532	+0.006
2	Nicaragua	0.699	+0.003
3	Guatemala	0.704	+0.008
4	Guyana	0.729	+0.008
5	Bolivia	0.729	+0.003
6	Honduras	0.732	+0.003
7	El Salvador	0.747	+0.001
8	Paraguay	0.761	+0.004
9	Jamaica	0.766	-0.002
10	Suriname	0.769	+0.004

Asia & Oceania[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Australia	0.970	+0.002
2	Japan	0.960	+0.002
3	New Zealand	0.950	+0.002
4	Singapore	0.944	+0.002
5	Hong Kong	0.944	+0.001
6	South Korea	0.937	+0.004
7	Israel	0.935	+0.003
8	Brunei	0.920	+0.001
9	Kuwait	0.916	+0.004
10	Cyprus	0.914	+0.003

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Low human development
1	Afghanistan	0.352	+0.002
2	Timor-Leste	0.489	+0.005
Medium human development
3	Papua New Guinea	0.541	+0.005
4	Bangladesh	0.543	+0.008
5	Nepal	0.553	+0.006
6	Pakistan	0.572	+0.004
7	Yemen	0.575	+0.007
8	Myanmar	0.586	+0.002
9	Cambodia	0.593	+0.009
10	Solomon Islands	0.610	+0.006

Europe[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Norway	0.971	+0.001
2	Iceland	0.969	+0.002
3	Ireland	0.965	+0.001
4	Netherlands	0.964	+0.003
5	Sweden	0.963	+0.002
6	France	0.961	+0.003
7	Switzerland	0.960	+0.001
8	Luxembourg	0.960	+0.001
9	Finland	0.959	+0.004
10	Austria	0.955	+0.003

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Medium human development
1	Moldova	0.720	+0.002
2	Georgia	0.778	+0.010
3	Azerbaijan	0.787	+0.014
4	Ukraine	0.796	+0.007
5	Armenia	0.798	0.011
High human development
6	Kazakhstan	0.804	+0.003
7	Turkey	0.806	+0.004
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.812	+0.005
9	Macedonia	0.817	+0.004
10	Russia	0.817^{[nb 2]}	+0.011

List of countries by non-continental region[edit]

European Union[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Ireland	0.965	+0.001
2	Netherlands	0.964	+0.003
3	Sweden	0.963	+0.002
4	France	0.961	+0.003
5	Luxembourg	0.960	+0.001
6	Finland	0.959	+0.004
7	Austria	0.955	+0.003
8	Spain	0.955	+0.003
9	Denmark	0.955	+0.002
10	Belgium	0.953	+0.002

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
High human development
1	Romania	0.837	+0.005
2	Bulgaria	0.840	+0.005
3	Latvia	0.866	+0.007
4	Lithuania	0.870	+0.005
5	Hungary	0.879	+0.001
6	Slovakia	0.880	+0.007
7	Poland	0.880	+0.004
8	Estonia	0.883	+0.005
Very High human development
9	Malta	0.902	+0.003
10	Czech Republic	0.903	+0.004

Middle East and North Africa[edit]

10 highest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Very high human development
1	Israel	0.935	+0.003
2	Kuwait	0.916	+0.004
3	Cyprus	0.914	+0.003
4	Qatar	0.910	+0.005
5	United Arab Emirates	0.903	+0.007
High human development
6	Bahrain	0.895	+0.001
7	Libya	0.847	+0.005
8	Oman	0.846	+0.003
9	Saudi Arabia	0.843	+0.003
10	Turkey	0.806	+0.004

10 lowest HDIs

Rank	Country	HDI
Rank	Country	2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
Medium human development
1	Djibouti	0.520	+0.003
2	Mauritania	0.520	+0.001
3	Sudan	0.531	+0.005
4	Yemen	0.575	+0.007
5	Comoros	0.576	+0.003
6	Morocco	0.654	+0.006
7	Egypt	0.703	+0.003
8	Palestinian Authority	0.737
9	Syria	0.742	+0.004
10	Algeria	0.754	+0.006

HDI by regions & groups[edit]

Region or Group	HDI 2007	HDI 2005
Very high human development
NATO	0.947	0.944
Europe	0.920	0.919
High human development
APEC	0.881	0.878
BRICS	0.837	0.824
Balkans	0.810	N/A
Medium human development
North Africa	0.781	0.771
Middle East	0.749	0.743
World	0.676	0.674
Arab States	0.591	0.593
Sub-Saharan Africa And The South Asia	0.500	0.498

Group	Classification (2007)	HDI
Group	Classification (2007)	min	max	average (2007)	average (2005)
Very high human development	Developed countries	0.900	1.000	0.904	0.897
High human development	Developing countries	0.800	0.899	0.878	0.897
Medium human development	Developing countries	0.500	0.799	0.707	0.698
Low human development	Least developed countries	0.000	0.499	0.397	0.436
World	—	0.000	1.000	0.676	0.673

Older group (up to 2005)	GNI per capita (US$)		Old HDI
Older group (up to 2005)	min	max	Old HDI
High-income countries	24561	—	0.902
– High-income OECD	24561	—	0.897
Middle-income countries	8172	10 725	0.692
Low-income countries	—	1123	0.602
World	—	—	0.676
– Developing countries			0.705
– Least developed countries			0.418

Countries missing from latest report[edit]

UN member states (latest UNDP data)[edit]

Year		Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data	Country	HDI	Rank	Source
Very high human development
1997	N/A	Monaco	1.946	1	^{[citation needed]}
1997	N/A	Libya	0.904	67	^{[citation needed]}
High human development
1998	N/A	Palau	0.847	93	^{[citation needed]}
Medium human development
1998	1995	North Korea	0.747	125	^[3]
1998	N/A	Morocco	0.719	138	^{[citation needed]}
1998	N/A	Tuvalu	0.609	189	^{[citation needed]}
1998	N/A	Federated States of Micronesia	0.598	198	^{[citation needed]}
1998	N/A	Marshall Islands	0.493	224	^{[citation needed]}
1998	N/A	Kiribati	0.477	238	^{[citation needed]}
2007	2005	Zimbabwe	0.419	256	^[4]
Low human development
2001	2001	Somalia	0.188	265	^[5]^{[nb 4]}

Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)[edit]

Year		Country or Territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Publication	Data	Country or Territory	HDI	Rank	Source
Very high human development
2009	2007	Republic of China (Taiwan)	0.943	25	^{[nb 5]}
1998	N/A	Puerto Rico	0.942	N/A	^[7]
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	Macau	0.944	23	^[10]
High human development
2008	2005	New Caledonia	0.878	34	^[8]
2007	2004	Réunion	0.870	35	^[8]^[11]
2008	2005	French Polynesia	0.864	42	^[8]
2008	2005	French Guiana	0.862	43	^[8]
Medium human development
2004	2002	Kosovo	0.733	N/A	^[12]

Notes[edit]

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↑ "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply Denmark's HDI published on the 1997 report^{[citation needed]}.
↑ The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2007, Macau would rank 23rd or 24th (tying either Singapore or Hong Kong). "Macao in Figures 2010". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
↑ "L'Indice de Développement Humain : Une Évaluation pour la réunion" (PDF) (in French). Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD) Université du Sud Toulon-Var. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-10. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
↑ "Human Development Report - Kosovo 2004" (in English, Albanian, and Serbian). UNDP. 2004. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 As published in United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report "Human Development Indices - A statistical update 2008"; Table 1 "Human development index trends" 2008 and 2009 values are used, as these are the revised values rather than those originally published as shown in Appendix A1.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 See List of Russian federal subjects by HDI.
↑ Includes data for mainland China; excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), the Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
↑ Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).
↑ As the UN does not recognize Taiwan as a state, the HDI report does not include data for "Taiwan," (the term used by the UN to refer to the Republic of China(Taiwan); see Political status of Taiwan). The ROC's government calculated its HDI as of 2007 to be 0.943 based on the following data: life expectancy of 78.4 years; adult literacy rate of 97.6%; combined gross enrollment rate of 101.9%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$30,352.^[6]

External links[edit]

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[1] "History of the Human Development Report". United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[UNDP-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Human development indices" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 5 October 2009.

[6] "The State of Human Development" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.

[7] "Human Development Report 2007/2008" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2008. p. 231. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[8] "Human Development Report: Somalia 2001" (PDF). 2001. p. 198. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[10] "National Statistics, Republic of China(Taiwan)" (PDF) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-06.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

[12] "Puerto Rico (United States)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply the United States's HDI published on the 1997 report^{[citation needed]}.

[overseas_France-13] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 ^8.5 "Les défis de la croissance calédonienne, on page 13" (PDF) (in French). CEROM - INSEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

[14] "Greenland (Denmark)". United Nations Environment Programme. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2009.. Note: Appears to be simply Denmark's HDI published on the 1997 report^{[citation needed]}.

[Macau-15] The UN did not calculate the HDI of Macau. The government of Macau calculates its own HDI. If it were included in the UN's HDI figures as of 2007, Macau would rank 23rd or 24th (tying either Singapore or Hong Kong). "Macao in Figures 2010". Statistics and Census Service, Macau SAR. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-01.

[reunion-16] "L'Indice de Développement Humain : Une Évaluation pour la réunion" (PDF) (in French). Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD) Université du Sud Toulon-Var. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-10. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

[17] "Human Development Report - Kosovo 2004" (in English, Albanian, and Serbian). UNDP. 2004. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2009. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

[StatUpdate-3] 1.0 ^1.1 As published in United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report "Human Development Indices - A statistical update 2008"; Table 1 "Human development index trends" 2008 and 2009 values are used, as these are the revised values rather than those originally published as shown in Appendix A1.

[RusHDI-4] 2.0 ^2.1 See List of Russian federal subjects by HDI.

[5] Includes data for mainland China; excludes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (separately ranked), the Macau SAR and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

[9] Somalia's last inclusion in the HDI ranking was in the 1996 report (1993 data).

[11] As the UN does not recognize Taiwan as a state, the HDI report does not include data for "Taiwan," (the term used by the UN to refer to the Republic of China(Taiwan); see Political status of Taiwan). The ROC's government calculated its HDI as of 2007 to be 0.943 based on the following data: life expectancy of 78.4 years; adult literacy rate of 97.6%; combined gross enrollment rate of 101.9%; and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$30,352.^[6]

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v t e Lists of countries by population statistics
Global	Current population Current population (United Nations)
(Sub-)continents	Africa Asia Europe North America Caribbean Oceania South America
Intercontinental	Americas Arab world Commonwealth of Nations Eurasia European Union Islands Latin America Middle East
Cities/urban regions	National capitals Cities proper Metropolitan areas Urban areas Megacities Megalopolises
Past and future	Past and future population 1 1000 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 1907 1939 1989 2000 2005 2010 population milestones
Population density	Current density Past and future population density Current real density based on food growing capacity
Growth indicators	Population growth rate Natural increase Birth rate Mortality rate Fertility rate Past fertility rate
Other demographics	Age at first marriage Divorce rate Ethnic and cultural diversity level Immigrant population Linguistic diversity Median age Age structure Dependency ratio Net migration rate Number of households Sex ratio Urban population Urbanization
Health	Antiviral medications for pandemic influenza HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate Infant and under-five mortality rates Maternal mortality rate Life expectancy Past life expectancy Percentage suffering from undernourishment Health expenditure covered by government Suicide rate Total health expenditure per capita Body Mass Index (BMI)
Education and innovation	Bloomberg Innovation Index Education Index International Innovation Index Innovation Union Scoreboard Literacy rate Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies Progress in International Reading Literacy Study Student skills Tertiary education attainment Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study Women's average years in school World Intellectual Property Indicators
Economic	Development aid given Official Development Assistance received Employment rate Irrigated land area Human Development Index by country inequality-adjusted Human Poverty Index Imports Income equality Labour force Number of millionaires (US dollars) Number of billionaires (US dollars) Percentage living in poverty Public sector Sen social welfare function Unemployment rate
List of international rankings List of top international rankings by country Lists by country

v t e Lists of countries by quality of life rankings
General	Life expectancy Europe South America World Happiness Report Happy Planet Index Human Capital Index Human Development Index by country inequality-adjusted Legatum Prosperity Index Good Country Index Satisfaction with Life Index Where-to-be-born Index
Economic	Net take-home pay Long-term unemployment rate Home ownership rate Smartphone ownership rate
Environment	Environmental Performance Index Environmental Vulnerability Index Natural disaster risk
Health	Cancer rate Health care quality Hospital beds Risk of death from non-communicable disease Teenage pregnancy rate
Social/Political	Government transparency Global Slavery Index Global Terrorism Index Global Competitiveness Index Social Progress Index Time devoted to leisure and personal care Women's average years in school
List of international rankings List of top international rankings by country Lists by country

List of countries by Human Development Index (2009)

Contents

Complete list of countries[edit]

Very high human development (developed countries)[edit]

High human development (emerging countries)[edit]

Medium human development (developing countries)[edit]

Low human development (undeveloped countries)[edit]

List of countries by continent[edit]

Africa[edit]

Americas[edit]

Asia & Oceania[edit]

Europe[edit]

List of countries by non-continental region[edit]

European Union[edit]

Middle East and North Africa[edit]

HDI by regions & groups[edit]

Countries missing from latest report[edit]

UN member states (latest UNDP data)[edit]

Non-UN members (not calculated by the UNDP)[edit]

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