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 | Afro-Asiatic | Altaic | Amerindian and Indo-European | Austro-Asiatic | Austronesian | Basque | Caucasian | Dravidian | Eskimo-Aleut | Indo-European | Japanese | Khoisan | Korean | Niger-Congo | Nilo-Saharan | Paleo-Siberian | Papuan | Sino-Tibetan | Tai-Kadai | Uralic | Lowest hazard | Low hazard | Moderately low hazard | Moderate hazard | Moderately high hazard | High hazard | Highest hazard | |
2.96% | 39.1% | 86.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62.1% | 46.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44.5% | 81.0% | 4.67% | 96.1% | 62.7% | 1.37% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2.05% | 38.5% | 74.5% | 4.57% | 4.59% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97.2% | 4.35% | 1.49% | 61.0% | 39.2% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24.0% | 24.7% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100% | 3.88% | 5.61% | 65.9% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17.1% | 76.1% | 5.05% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31.7% | 8.18% | 7.63% | 16.8% | 49.9% | 39.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
80.3% | 30.5% | 51.4% | 20.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56.6% | 99.8% | 18.8% | 27.4% | 70.9% | 27.4% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
4.98% | 7.29% | 41.8% | 11.4% | 1.00% | 1.33% | 9.38% | 2.57% | 1.40% | 1.32% |