Human Development Index (HDI)
WorldHuman Development Index scores, by country. HDI is a composite of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development: very high, high, medium, and low. The rankings are viewed as the extent to which people are able to do things in life. HDI is a measure of the "potential" that people have to achieve economic and social goals, not necessarily whether all persons actually achieve such goals.
A world map shows the Human Development Index for different countries. Dark blue (more than 0.9): Canada, U S A. Blue to light blue (0.5 to 0.9): Brazil, Russia, north and South Africa. Very light blue (less than 0.5): most central countries of Africa.
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Class | Rank | Value | Moderate | High | Very High | Desert - Dry Regions | |
| 1.86% | |||||||
| 4.58% | 2.91% | 9.51% | 4.95% | ||||
| 2.52% | 7.35% | 30.8% | 59.1% | ||||
| 2.31% | 30.5% | ||||||
| 5.18% | 5.94% | 1.92% | 1.05% | ||||
| 16.5% | 11.9% | 10.8% | |||||
| 11.3% | 5.72% | 4.10% | 12.2% | ||||
| 1.22% | 5.24% | 92.9% | |||||
| 5.96% | 1.46% | 11.7% | 9.60% | ||||
| 19.6% | 5.24% | 9.49% | 20.7% | ||||
| 19.0% | 2.57% | 2.44% | |||||
| 8.30% | 16.0% | 15.2% | 72.0% | ||||
| 21.4% | 16.2% | 6.96% | 47.0% | ||||