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. Due to lack of data, a number of territories have no HDI figures tabulated. Territories are listed under their official UN designations; those that are not UN member states are marked with an asterisk (*).

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	Republic of Korea	0.901
29	Cyprus	0.891
30	Barbados	0.878
31	Czech Republic	0.874
32	Malta	0.867
33	Brunei Darussalam	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	Occupied 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	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[2][3]
—	Afghanistan
—	Andorra
—	Iraq
—	Kiribati
—	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
—	Liberia
—	Liechtenstein
—	Marshall Islands
—	Micronesia
—	Monaco
—	Nauru
—	Palau
—	San Marino
—	Serbia and Montenegro
—	Somalia
—	Tuvalu

1. ^  Includes data for the People's Republic of China less 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 territory's political status, are not co-terminous): the UN does not recognize the ROC as a state. The Republic of China 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. [4]

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Demographics	Population (graphical) | Population density | Life expectancy | Infant mortality rate | Fertility rate | Birth rate | Death rate | Human Development Index | Income equality | Literacy rate | HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate | People living with HIV/AIDS | Unemployment rate | Percentage of population living in poverty
Economy	GDP (nominal) | GDP (nominal) per capita | GDP (PPP) | GDP (PPP) per capita | past GDP (nominal), past GDP (PPP) | Current account balance | Imports | Exports | External debt | Public debt | Economic freedom | Income equality
Politics	Date of nationhood | Military expenditures | Number of active troops | Perception of corruption
Others	Carbon dioxide emissions | Carbon dioxide emissions per capita | GDP per ton of carbon dioxide emissions