List of countries by Human Development Index

This is a list of countries by Human Development Index (2003), as included in the United Nations Development Programme Report 2005.

Countries—almost all UN member states and a couple of special territories—fall into three broad categories based on their HDI: high, medium, and low human development.

Rank Country HDI
High human development
1
 Norway 		0.963
2
 Iceland 		0.956
3
 Australia 		0.955
4
 Luxembourg 		0.949
5
 Canada 		0.949
6
 Sweden 		0.949
7
 Switzerland 		0.947
8
 Ireland 		0.946
9
 Belgium 		0.945
10
 United States 		0.944
11
 Japan 		0.943
12
 Netherlands 		0.943
13
 Finland 		0.941
14
 Denmark 		0.941
15
 United Kingdom 		0.939
16
 France 		0.938
17
 Austria 		0.936
18
 Italy 		0.934
19
 New Zealand 		0.933
20
 Germany 		0.930
21
 Spain 		0.928
22
Hong Kong, China (SAR) 		0.916
23
 Israel 		0.915
24
 Greece 		0.912
25
 Singapore 		0.907
26
 Slovenia 		0.904
27
 Portugal 		0.904
28
 South Korea 		0.901
29
 Cyprus 		0.891
30
 Barbados 		0.878
31
 Czech Republic 		0.874
32
 Malta 		0.867
33
 Brunei 		0.866
34
 Argentina 		0.863
35
 Hungary 		0.862
36
 Poland 		0.858
37
 Chile 		0.854
38
 Estonia 		0.853
39
 Lithuania 		0.852
40
 Qatar 		0.849
41
 United Arab Emirates 		0.849
42
 Slovakia 		0.849
43
 Bahrain 		0.846
44
 Kuwait 		0.844
45
 Croatia 		0.841
46
 Uruguay 		0.840
47
 Costa Rica 		0.838
48
 Latvia 		0.836
49
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 		0.834
50
 Bahamas 		0.832
51
 Seychelles 		0.821
52
 Cuba 		0.817
53
 Mexico 		0.814
54
 Tonga 		0.810
55
 Bulgaria 		0.808
56
 Panama 		0.804
57
 Trinidad and Tobago 		0.801
Medium human development
58
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 		0.799
59
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 		0.797
60
 Antigua and Barbuda 		0.797
61
 Malaysia 		0.796
62
Russian Federation 		0.795
63
 Brazil 		0.792
64
 Romania 		0.792
65
 Mauritius 		0.791
66
 Grenada 		0.787
67
 Belarus 		0.786
68
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 		0.786
69
 Colombia 		0.785
70
 Dominica 		0.783
71
 Oman 		0.781
72
 Albania 		0.780
73
 Thailand 		0.778
74
Samoa (Western) 		0.776
75
 Venezuela 		0.772
76
 Saint Lucia 		0.772
77
 Saudi Arabia 		0.772
78
 Ukraine 		0.766
79
 Peru 		0.762
80
 Kazakhstan 		0.761
81
 Lebanon 		0.759
82
 Ecuador 		0.759
83
 Armenia 		0.759
84
 Philippines 		0.758
85
China[1] 		0.755
86
 Suriname 		0.755
87
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 		0.755
88
 Paraguay 		0.755
89
 Tunisia 		0.753
90
 Jordan 		0.753
91
 Belize 		0.753
92
 Fiji 		0.752
93
 Sri Lanka 		0.751
94
 Turkey 		0.750
95
 Dominican Republic 		0.749
96
 Maldives 		0.745
97
 Turkmenistan 		0.738
98
 Jamaica 		0.738
99
Islamic Republic of Iran 		0.736
100
Georgia 		0.732
101
 Azerbaijan 		0.729
102
 Palestinian territories 		0.729
103
 Algeria 		0.722
104
 El Salvador 		0.722
105
 Cape Verde 		0.721
106
Syrian Arab Republic 		0.721
107
 Guyana 		0.720
108
Viet Nam 		0.704
109
 Kyrgyzstan 		0.702
110
 Indonesia 		0.697
111
 Uzbekistan 		0.694
112
 Nicaragua 		0.690
113
 Bolivia 		0.687
114
 Mongolia 		0.679
115
Republic of Moldova 		0.671
116
 Honduras 		0.667
117
 Guatemala 		0.663
118
 Vanuatu 		0.659
119
 Egypt 		0.659
120
 South Africa 		0.658
121
 Equatorial Guinea 		0.655
122
 Tajikistan 		0.652
123
 Gabon 		0.635
124
 Morocco 		0.631
125
 Namibia 		0.627
126
São Tomé and Principe 		0.604
127
 India 		0.602
128
 Solomon Islands 		0.594
129
 Myanmar 		0.578
130
 Cambodia 		0.571
131
 Botswana 		0.565
132
 Comoros 		0.547
133
Lao People's Democratic Republic 		0.545
134
 Bhutan 		0.536
135
 Pakistan 		0.527
136
Nepal 		0.526
137
 Papua New Guinea 		0.523
138
 Ghana 		0.520
139
 Bangladesh 		0.520
140
 Timor-Leste 		0.513
141
 Sudan 		0.512
142
Congo 		0.512
143
 Togo 		0.512
144
 Uganda 		0.508
145
 Zimbabwe 		0.505
Low human development
146
 Madagascar 		0.499
147
 Swaziland 		0.498
148
 Cameroon 		0.497
149
 Lesotho 		0.497
150
 Djibouti 		0.495
151
 Yemen 		0.489
152
 Mauritania 		0.477
153
 Haiti 		0.475
154
 Kenya 		0.474
155
The Gambia 		0.470
156
 Guinea 		0.466
157
 Senegal 		0.458
158
 Nigeria 		0.453
159
 Rwanda 		0.450
160
 Angola 		0.445
161
 Eritrea 		0.444
162
 Benin 		0.431
163
Côte d’Ivoire 		0.420
164
United Republic of Tanzania 		0.418
165
 Malawi 		0.404
166
 Zambia 		0.394
167
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 		0.385
168
 Mozambique 		0.379
169
 Burundi 		0.378
170
 Ethiopia 		0.367
171
 Central African Republic 		0.355
172
 Guinea-Bissau 		0.348
173
 Chad 		0.341
174
 Mali 		0.333
175
 Burkina Faso 		0.317
176
 Sierra Leone 		0.298
177
 Niger 		0.281
Unavailable
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 Afghanistan
—
 Andorra
—
 Iraq
—
 Kiribati
—
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
—
 Liberia
—
 Liechtenstein
—
Macao, China (SAR)
—
 Marshall Islands
—
 Micronesia
—
 Monaco
—
 Montenegro
—
 Nauru
—
 Palau
—
 San Marino
—
 Serbia
—
 Somalia
—
 Taiwan[2]
—
 Tuvalu
—
 Vatican City

1.↑  Includes data for mainland People's Republic of China excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (with a unique HDI entry), Macau SAR, and Taiwan, Province of China.

2.↑  The HDI report does not include data for "Taiwan, Province of China", the term used by the UN to refer to the domain of the Republic of China (ROC; which, given the country's political status, are not co-terminous): the UN does not recognize the ROC as a state. The ROC government calculated its HDI to be 0.910 for 2003 based on the following data: life expectancy of 76.1 years, adult literacy rate of 97.0%, combined gross enrolment rate of 97%, and GDP per capita (PPP) of US$23,911. If included among UN HDI figures, the ROC would rank 25th: behind Greece and in front of Singapore. [3]

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