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The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions. The health dimension is assessed by life expectancy at birth, the education dimension is measured by mean of years of schooling for adults aged 25 years and more and expected years of schooling for children of school entering age. The standard of living dimension is measured by gross national income per capita. The HDI uses the logarithm of income, to reflect the diminishing importance of income with increasing GNI. The scores for the three HDI dimension indices are then aggregated into a composite index using geometric mean. Refer to Technical notes for more details. The HDI can be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of GNI per capita can end up with different human development outcomes. These contrasts can stimulate debate about government policy priorities. The HDI simplifies and captures only part of what human development entails. It does not reflect on inequalities, poverty, human security, empowerment, etc. The HDRO provides other composite indices as a broader proxy on some of the key issues of human development, inequality, gender disparity, and poverty. A fuller picture of a country's level of human development requires analysis of other indicators and information presented in the HDR statistical annex.

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In this Dataset, we have Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development with various composite indices. The human development composite indices have been developed to capture broader dimensions of human development, identify groups falling behind in human progress and monitor the distribution of human development. In addition to the HDI, the indices include Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), Gender Inequality Index (GII), Gender Development Index (GDI), Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI (PHDI) and Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI).

Dataset Glossary (Alphabetical Order)

• Adolescent Birth Rate - Births per 1000 Women Ages 15 to 19
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions per Capita Production in Tonnes
• Coefficient of Human Inequality
• Expected Years of Schooling - Female
• Expected Years of Schooling - Male
• Expected Years of Schooling
• Gender Development Index
• Gender Inequality Index
• Gross National Income Per Capita - Female
• Gross National Income Per Capita - Male
• Gross National Income Per Capita
• HDI Female
• HDI Male
• Human Development Index
• Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index
• Inequality in Education
• Inequality in Income
• Inequality in Life Expectancy
• Labour Force Participation Rate - Female Percentage Ages 15 and Older
• Labour Force Participation Rate - Male Percentage Ages 15 and Older
• Life Expectancy at Birth - Female
• Life Expectancy at Birth - Male
• Life Expectancy at Birth
• Material Footprint per Capita in Tonnes
• Maternal Mortality Ratio - Deaths per 100000 Live Births
• Mean Years of Schooling - Female
• Mean Years of Schooling - Male
• Mean Years of Schooling
• Planetary Pressures Adjusted Human Development Index

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(1) The Human Development Index (HDI) is compiled by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to measure a country's comprehensive development in the areas of health, education, and economy according to the UNDP's calculation formula.(2) Explanation: (1) The HDI value ranges from 0 to 1, with higher values being better. (2) Due to our country's non-membership in the United Nations and its special international situation, the index is calculated by our department according to the UNDP formula using our country's data. The calculation of the comprehensive index for each year is mainly based on the data of various indicators adopted by the UNDP. (3) In order to have the same baseline for international comparison, the comprehensive index and rankings are not retroactively adjusted after being published.(3) Notes: (1) The old indicators included life expectancy at birth, adult literacy rate, gross enrollment ratio, and average annual income per person calculated by purchasing power parity. (2) The indicators were updated to include life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, and nominal gross national income (GNI) calculated by purchasing power parity. Starting in 2011, the GNI per capita was adjusted from nominal value to real value to exclude the impact of price changes. Additionally, the HDI calculation method has changed from arithmetic mean to geometric mean. (3) The calculation method for indicators in the education domain changed from geometric mean to simple average due to retrospective adjustments in the 2014 Human Development Report for the years 2005, 2008, and 2010-2012. Since 2016, the education domain has adopted data compiled by the Ministry of Education according to definitions from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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The Gender Development Index (GDI) is a composite measure designed to assess gender disparities and inequalities in a society by considering factors related to human development. It is an extension of the Human Development Index (HDI) and focuses on three key dimensions: health, education, and income. In the GDI, these dimensions are assessed separately for males and females, allowing for a comparison of gender-based development gaps. Health indicators typically include life expectancy at birth for both genders. Education indicators encompass literacy rates and enrollment in primary, secondary, and tertiary education for both males and females. The income component typically examines income levels and workforce participation for both genders.

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This dataset provides comprehensive historical data on gender development indicators at a global level. It includes essential columns such as ISO3 (the ISO3 code for each country/territory), Country (the name of the country or territory), Continent (the continent where the country is located), Hemisphere (the hemisphere in which the country is situated), Human Development Groups, UNDP Developing Regions, HDI Rank (2021) representing the Human Development Index Rank for the year 2021, and Gender Development Index spanning from 1990 to 2021.

Dataset Glossary (Column-wise)

• ISO3 - ISO3 for the Country/Territory
• Country - Name of the Country/Territory
• Continent - Name of the Continent
• Hemisphere - Name of the Hemisphere
• Human Development Groups - Human Development Groups
• UNDP Developing Regions - UNDP Developing Regions
• HDI Rank (2021) - Human Development Index Rank for 2021
• Gender Development Index from 1990 to 2021 - Gender Development Index from 1990 to 2021

Data Dictionary

• UNDP Developing Regions:
  • SSA - Sub-Saharan Africa
  • LAC - Latin America and the Caribbean
  • EAP - East Asia and the Pacific
  • AS - Arab States
  • ECA - Europe and Central Asia
  • SA - South Asia

Structure of the Dataset

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Acknowledgement

This Dataset is created from Human Development Reports. This Dataset falls under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License. You can check the Terms of Use of this Data. If you want to learn more, visit the Website.

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The Human Development Indicators (HDI) is a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The CSV file includes statistical measures for 142 indicators in Vietnam. The pdf file presents information on the country coverage and methodology of the Statistical Update and information about key indicators of human development including the Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII) and a section with five dashboards.

The aim of the Human Development Report is to stimulate global, regional and national policy-relevant discussions on issues pertinent to human development. Accordingly, the data in the Report require the highest standards of data quality, consistency, international comparability and transparency. The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) fully subscribes to the Principles governing international statistical activities.

The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The HDI can also be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of GNI per capita can end up with different human development outcomes. These contrasts can stimulate debate about government policy priorities. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions.

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.Jointly developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, the 2019 global MPI offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population. The MPI provides a comprehensive and in-depth picture of global poverty – in all its dimensions – and monitors progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – to end poverty in all its forms. It also provides policymakers with the data to respond to the call of Target 1.2, which is to ‘reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definition'.

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.

In 2021, Ghana scored 0.63 on the Human Development Index (HDI), which indicated a medium level of development. The country experienced a steady increase in the index from 2000 onwards. However, it remained between the medium and low indicators of human development.

The human development index is one indicator of a country's progress. Many things can be done by knowing the human development index. HDI explains how the population can access development outcomes in terms of income, health, education, and so on. The HDI was introduced by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1990 and is published regularly in the annual Human Development Report (HDR).

An increasing amount of high-resolution global spatial data are available, and used for various assessments. However, key economic and human development indicators are still mainly provided only at national level, and downscaled by users for gridded spatial analyses. Instead, it would be beneficial to adopt data for sub-national administrative units where available, supplemented by national data where necessary. To this end, we present gap-filled multiannual datasets in gridded form for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Human Development Index (HDI). To provide a consistent product over time and space, the sub-national data were only used indirectly, scaling the reported national value and thus, remaining representative of the official statistics. This resulted in annual gridded datasets for GDP per capita (PPP), total GDP (PPP), and HDI, for the whole world at 5 arc-min resolution for the 25-year period of 1990–2015. Additionally, total GDP (PPP) is provided with 30 arc-sec resolution for three time steps (1990, 2000, 2015).

Dominican Republic: Human Development Index (0 - 1): The latest value from 2023 is 0.776 points, an increase from 0.766 points in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 0.744 points, based on data from 185 countries. Historically, the average for Dominican Republic from 1980 to 2023 is 0.679 points. The minimum value, 0.527 points, was reached in 1980 while the maximum of 0.776 points was recorded in 2023.

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Human Development Index (0 - 1): The latest value from 2023 is 0.649 points, an increase from 0.593 points in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 0.744 points, based on data from 185 countries. Historically, the average for Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1980 to 2023 is 0.404 points. The minimum value, 0.331 points, was reached in 1999 while the maximum of 0.649 points was recorded in 2023.

In 2022, Ethiopia scored almost *** in the Human Development Index (HDI), which indicated a low level of development. The country experienced no change in the HDI score since the 2019. However, an improvement was recorded from 2000 onwards. That year, Ethiopia's score was ****, meaning that the country had a lower human development. The country's categorization was low throughout the period under review.

******* 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 Human Development Index (HDI) of Ireland from 1990 to 2022 shows that after 1995, Ireland's HDI score increased quite rapidly, so that by 2022 it's score of ***** gave it the status of a very highly developed country. The HDI itself is a statistic that combines life-expectancy, education levels and GDP per capita. Countries with scores over ***** are considered to have high levels of development, compared with countries that score lower.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalised indices for each of the three dimensions. It is worked out for the Basque Country using the methodology of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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When i needed to access Human Development dataset, i was surprised to see that the data is not offered through APIs, i tried many python libraries i found online but all failed to retrieve data. So, i decided to scrape it from the website myself.

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The code is split into two notebooks:

• Scrapping Human Development Index.ipynb which will load the csv HDI_KPIs.csv The file only has the urls for all HDI indicators which will be used to scrape the data. The code will scrape all the indicators and store each one of them in a seperate csv in input_data folder.

• Human Development Index.ipynb This notebooks will load all the csvs, clean the data and store it in HDI-complete.csv inside output_data folder.

Madagascar: Human Development Index (0 - 1): The latest value from 2023 is 0.487 points, unchanged from 0.487 points in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 0.744 points, based on data from 185 countries. Historically, the average for Madagascar from 2000 to 2023 is 0.496 points. The minimum value, 0.456 points, was reached in 2000 while the maximum of 0.528 points was recorded in 2020.

The aim of the Human Development Report is to stimulate global, regional and national policy-relevant discussions on issues pertinent to human development. Accordingly, the data in the Report require the highest standards of data quality, consistency, international comparability and transparency. The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) fully subscribes to the Principles governing international statistical activities.

The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The HDI can also be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of GNI per capita can end up with different human development outcomes. These contrasts can stimulate debate about government policy priorities. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions.

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.Jointly developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, the 2019 global MPI offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population. The MPI provides a comprehensive and in-depth picture of global poverty – in all its dimensions – and monitors progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – to end poverty in all its forms. It also provides policymakers with the data to respond to the call of Target 1.2, which is to ‘reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definition'.

In 2019, Morocco scored **** in the Human Development Index (HDI), which indicated a medium level of development. From 2002 until this date, the country remained at the said stage of human development. On the other hand, Morocco registered scores of **** and **** in 2000 and 2001, respectively, which were indications of low human development.

Time series data for the statistic Human development index (HDI) and country Kenya. Indicator Definition:The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of human development. It measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices measuring achievements in each dimension. The HDI is the geometric mean of the three dimension indices and embodies imperfect substitutability across all HDI dimensions. It thus addresses one of the most serious criticisms of the linear aggregation formula, which allowed for perfect substitution across dimensions. Some substitutability is inherent in the definition of any index that increases with the values of its components. Data sources: Life expectancy at birth: UNDESA; Mean years of schooling: Barro and Lee; Expected years of schooling: UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Gross national income (GNI) per capita: World Bank.The indicator "Human development index (HDI)" stands at 0.515 as of 12/31/2011, the highest value at least since 12/31/1990, the period currently displayed. Regarding the One-Year-Change of the series, the current value constitutes an increase of 0.7828 percent compared to the value the year prior.The 1 year change in percent is 0.7828.The 3 year change in percent is 4.04.The 5 year change in percent is 7.29.The Serie's long term average value is 0.48. It's latest available value, on 12/31/2011, is 7.22 percent higher, compared to it's long term average value.The Serie's change in percent from it's minimum value, on 12/31/1980, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2011, is +21.46%.The Serie's change in percent from it's maximum value, on 12/31/2011, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2011, is 0.0%.