How does Human Development Index play a role in our HDI calculator?
Learn more about the Human Development Index (HDI) :
- additional HDI info here
- even more HDI info here.
- HDI FAQs here :
“The entire series of Human Development Index (used in our HDI calculator) values and rankings are recalculated every year using the same the most recent (revised) data and functional forms. The HDI rankings and values in the latest Human Development Report cannot therefore be compared directly to indices published in previous Reports. Please see the documentation section for more information.
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.”