Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

 is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 is a developed, developing, or under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i economist Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq was an Pakistani economist who is known to be the pioneer of Human development theory and the founder of the Human Development Report...

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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.

List of African countries

The following list of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

n countries by Human Development Index is drawn from the United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...

's Human Development Report 2010.

High Human Development
Rank	Country	HDI	World rank
1	Libya	0.755	53
2	Mauritius	0.701	72
3	Tunisia	0.683	81
4	Algeria	0.677	84
Medium Human Development
Rank	Country	HDI	World rank
5	Gabon	0.648	93
6	Botswana	0.633	98
7	Egypt	0.620	101
8	Namibia	0.606	105
9	South Africa	0.597	110
10	Morocco	0.567	114
11	Equatorial Guinea	0.538	117
12	Cape Verde	0.534	118
13	Swaziland	0.498	121
14	Republic of the Congo	0.489	126
15	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.488	127
16	Kenya	0.470	128
17	Ghana	0.467	130
18	Cameroon	0.460	131
19	Benin	0.435	134
20	Madagascar	0.435	135
21	Mauritania	0.433	136
22	Togo	0.428	139
23	Comoros	0.428	140
24	Lesotho	0.427	141
25	Nigeria	0.423	142
26	Uganda	0.422	143
27	Senegal	0.411	144
28	Angola	0.403	146
29	Djibouti	0.402	147
Low Human Development
Rank	Country	HDI	World rank
30	Tanzania	0.398	148
31	Côte d'Ivoire	0.397	149
32	Zambia	0.395	150
33	The Gambia	0.390	151
34	Rwanda	0.385	152
35	Malawi	0.385	153
36	Sudan	0.379	154
37	Guinea	0.340	156
38	Ethiopia	0.328	157
39	Sierra Leone	0.317	158
40	Central African Republic	0.315	159
41	Mali	0.309	160
42	Burkina Faso	0.305	161
43	Liberia	0.300	162
44	Chad	0.295	163
45	Guinea-Bissau	0.289	164
46	Mozambique	0.284	165
47	Burundi	0.282	166
47	Niger	0.261	167
48	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.239	168
50	Zimbabwe	0.140	169
Unavailable Data
Rank	Country	HDI	World rank
	Somalia
	Seychelles
	Eritrea
	Western Sahara

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of African countries by GDP
• List of African countries by GDP PPP
• List of African countries by GDP per capita
• List of African countries by population
• List of African countries by population density