South Sudan and Somalia had the ****** levels of human development based on the Human Development Index (HDI). Many of the countries at the bottom of the list are located in Sub-Saharan Africa, underlining the prevalence of poverty and low levels of education in the region. Meanwhile, Switzerland had the ******* HDI worldwide.

The average for 2023 based on 184 countries was 0.744 points. The highest value was in Iceland: 0.972 points and the lowest value was in South Africa: 0.388 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

South Sudan had the lowest level of the Human Development Index (HDI) worldwide in 2023 after adjusting for inequality, with a value of ****. Its nearby countries, Somalia and the Central African Republic, followed behind. Meanwhile, Iceland topped the HDI not adjusted for inequality.

******* had the highest level of the Human Development Index (HDI) worldwide in 2023 with a value of *****. With a score of ****, ****** followed closely behind *********** and had the second-highest level of human development in that year. The rise of the Asian tigers In the decades after the Cold War, the four so-called Asian tigers, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (now a Special Administrative Region of China) experienced rapid economic growth and increasing human development. At number eight and number 13 of the HDI, respectively, *********************** are the only Asian locations within the top-15 highest HDI scores. Both locations have experienced tremendous economic growth since the 1980’s and 1990’s. In 1980, the per capita GDP of Hong Kong was ***** U.S. dollars, increasing throughout the decades until reaching ****** in 2023, which is expected to continue to increase in the future. Meanwhile, in 1989, Singapore had a GDP of nearly ** billion U.S. dollars, which has risen to nearly *** billion U.S. dollars today and is also expected to keep increasing. Growth of the UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the only Middle Eastern country besides Israel within the highest ranking HDI scores globally. Within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the UAE has the third-largest GDP behind Saudi Arabia and Israel, reaching nearly *** billion U.S. dollars by 2022. Per capita, the UAE GDP was around ****** U.S. dollars in 1989, and has nearly doubled to ****** U.S. dollars by 2021. Moreover, this is expected to reach over ****** U.S. dollars by 2029. On top of being a major oil producer, the UAE has become a hub for finance and business and attracts millions of tourists annually.

The average for 2023 based on 27 countries was 0.915 points. The highest value was in Denmark: 0.962 points and the lowest value was in Bulgaria: 0.845 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Compared to other African countries, Seychelles scored the highest in the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2022. The country also ranked 67th globally, as one of the countries with a very high human development. This was followed by Mauritius, Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia, with scores ranging from 0.80 to 0.73 points. On the other hand, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Somalia were among the countries in the region with the lowest index scores, indicating a low level of human development.

The average for 2023 based on 12 countries was 0.787 points. The highest value was in Chile: 0.878 points and the lowest value was in Venezuela: 0.709 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2021, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Minnesota had the highest Human Development Index (HDI) score of any other states at ****. Many more states had a score just below this at ****. Mississippi had the lowest HDI score at ****, and the U.S. average was ****.

ම ය ම නව ස වර ධන දර ශකය අන ව රටවල ල ය ස ත වක World map of countries by Human Development Index categories in increments

The Human development index (HDI) for European countries in 2022 shows that although all of the countries in this statistic have scores which imply high levels of development, ************* score of ***** was the highest in this year. The HDI is a statistic that combines life-expectancy, education levels and GDP per capita. Countries with scores over ***** are considered to have very high levels of development, compared with countries that score lower.

The average for 2023 based on 11 countries was 0.721 points. The highest value was in Australia: 0.958 points and the lowest value was in Papua New Guinea: 0.576 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2023 based on 18 countries was 0.754 points. The highest value was in the United Arab Emirates: 0.94 points and the lowest value was in Yemen: 0.47 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

This is pdf of a country list with HDI, iHDI, MPI and Gini. This file is now superseeded by DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908363, see https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/55A44ZRB (which will also be available as a data file).

The average for 2023 based on 8 countries was 0.659 points. The highest value was in Sri Lanka: 0.776 points and the lowest value was in Afghanistan: 0.496 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2024, Hong Kong had the highest Human Development Index (HDI) in the Asia-Pacific region, with a score of ****. In contrast, Pakistan's HDI score was roughly **** in the same year. HDI provides a human-centered overview of development, based on an individual's longevity and wellness, knowledge, and decent living standards.

The average for 2023 based on 46 countries was 0.569 points. The highest value was in the Seychelles: 0.848 points and the lowest value was in South Africa: 0.388 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2023 based on 11 countries was 0.739 points. The highest value was in Singapore: 0.946 points and the lowest value was in Cambodia: 0.606 points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Worm index rankings by country along with HDI.

Europe and Central Asia was the region with the highest Human Development Index (HDI) worldwide at ***. Meanwhile, the lowest HDI was found in Sub-Saharan Africa, underlining the high prevalence of poverty in the region. The difference between the regions was even stronger after adjusting for inequality.

COVID-19 Stats & Trends

Context

This dataset seeks to provide insights into what has changed due to policies aimed at combating COVID-19 and evaluate the changes in community activities and its relation to reduced confirmed cases of COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends, compared to an expected baseline, over time (from 2020/02/15 to 2020/02/05) by geography (across 133 countries), as well as some other stats about the country that might help explain the evolution of the disease.

Content

1. Grocery & Pharmacy: Mobility trends for places like grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers' markets, specialty food shops, drug stores, and pharmacies.
2. Parks: Mobility trends for places like national parks, public beaches, marinas, dog parks, plazas, and public gardens.
3. Residential: Mobility trends for places of residence.
4. Retail & Recreation: Mobility trends for places like restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks, museums, libraries, and movie theaters.
5. Transit stations: Mobility trends for places like public transport hubs such as subway, bus, and train stations.
6. Workplaces: Mobility trends for places of work.
7. Total Cases: Total number of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2.
8. Fatalities: Total number of deaths caused by CoV-19.
9. Government Response Stringency Index: Additive score of nine indicators of government response to CoV-19: School closures, workplace closures, cancellation of public events, public information campaigns, stay at home policies, restrictions on internal movement, international travel controls, testing policy, and contact tracing.
10. COVID-19 Testing: Total number of tests performed.
11. Total Vaccinations: Total number of shots given.
12. Total People Vaccinated: Total number of people given a shot.
13. Total People Fully Vaccinated: Total number of people fully vaccinated (might require two shots of some vaccines).
14. Population: Total number of inhabitants.
15. Population Density per km2: Number of human inhabitants per square kilometer.
16. Health System Index: Overall performance of the health system.
17. Human Development Index (HDI): Summary index based on life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI per capita.
18. GDP (PPP) per capita: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), taking into account the relative cost of local goods, services and inflation rates of the country, rather than using international market exchange rates, which may distort the real differences in per capita income.
19. Elderly Population (percentage): Percentage of the population above the age of 65 years old.

References & Acknowledgements

Bing COVID-19 data. Available at: https://github.com/microsoft/Bing-COVID-19-Data COVID-19 Community Mobility Report. Available at: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ COVID-19: Government Response Stringency Index. Available at: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing. Available at: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/blob/master/public/data/testing/covid-testing-all-observations.csv Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination. Available at: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owid/covid-19-data/master/public/data/vaccinations/vaccinations.csv List of countries and dependencies by population. Available at: https://www.kaggle.com/tanuprabhu/population-by-country-2020 List of countries and dependencies by population density. Available at: https://www.kaggle.com/tanuprabhu/population-by-country-2020 List of countries by Human Development Index. Available at: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data Measuring Overall Health System Performance. Available at: https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf?ua=1 List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD List of countries by age structure (65+). Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS

Authors

• Diogo Silva, up201706892@fe.up.pt