Human Development Index

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = low human development 1 = very high human development The Human Development Index ranges in between these two values.
Technical name	socstr_hdi_undp
Category	Social structure
Label	Human Development Index
Related indicators	Gender Inequality Index Gini Coefficient (LIS) Gini Coefficient (WIID) Gini (at disposable income post taxes & transfers) GINI index (World Bank estimate) Atkinson Coefficient (epsilon=0.5) Atkinson Coefficient (epsilon=1)

The Human Development Index combined the average achievement of a country in various key dimensions of human development, a long and healthy life, level of education and have a decent living standard. But the Human Development Index does not show the dimensions of inequality, poverty, empowerment, etc.

Coding rules

Health is measured by life expectancy at birth, education by the mean of years of schooling for adults and the expected years of schooling for childrenn when they enter school and the standard of living by the gross national income per capita.

Bibliographic info

Citation: United Nations Development Program. 2018b. Human development report 2018. Retrieved from http://hdr.undp.org/en/2018-update

Related publications:

Misc

Project manager(s): Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Karolin Meyer

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

• Teorell, Jan, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon and Richard Svensson. 2019. The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan19. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute. http://www.qog.pol.gu.se doi:10.18157/qogstdjan19