Human development, country by country
73
countries rank very high on human development
HDI at or above 0.800, of 192 with a 2023 figure
Notable positions 2023 report
Where the world sits
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Very high, 0.800 and aboveHigh, 0.700 to 0.799Medium, 0.550 to 0.699Low, below 0.550
Each dot is one country, placed by its Human Development Index. Colour marks the UNDP band.
73countries rank very high, at 0.800 or above
26rank low, below 0.550
43%lost to inequality in Somalia, the largest gap
4.9%lost in Slovenia, the smallest
All 195 countries
192 have a 2023 HDI figure. 3 do not.
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- 🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 🇱🇨Saint Lucia
- 🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 🇼🇸Samoa
- 🇸🇲San Marino
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇳Senegal
- 🇷🇸Serbia
- 🇸🇨Seychelles
- 🇸🇱Sierra Leone
- 🇸🇬Singapore
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮Slovenia
- 🇸🇧Solomon Islands
- 🇸🇴Somalia
- 🇿🇦South Africa
- 🇰🇷South Korea
- 🇸🇸South Sudan
- 🇪🇸Spain
- 🇱🇰Sri Lanka
- 🇸🇩Sudan
- 🇸🇷Suriname
- 🇸🇪Sweden
- 🇨🇭Switzerland
- 🇸🇾Syria
- 🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
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About these figures
UNDP Human Development Report, 2023 data. 3 countries have no published HDI this cycle and 24 more have no inequality-adjusted figure; both are shown as not available, never estimated.