The Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Kingdom has increased from ***** in 1990 to ***** by 2023, indicating that the UK has reached very high levels of human development. HDI is a statistic that combines life-expectancy, education levels and GDP per capita. Countries with scores over 0.800 are considered to have very high levels of development, compared with countries that score lower.

The United Kingdom: Human Development Index (0 - 1): The latest value from 2023 is 0.946 points, an increase from 0.94 points in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 0.744 points, based on data from 185 countries. Historically, the average for the United Kingdom from 1980 to 2023 is 0.877 points. The minimum value, 0.735 points, was reached in 1980 while the maximum of 0.946 points was recorded in 2023.

******* 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.

Collaboration types considering countries HDI and the order of signatures in scientific publications.

Centrality of the countries analyzed in the international collaboration networks and distribution of their existing collaborations according to the HDI of the countries with which they collaborated, in documents included in the SCI-Expanded database in the categories of Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Pediatrics (2011–2015).