Human Development & Quality of Life in Eritrea
Human Development
UNDP places Eritrea at rank 178 with a 2023 HDI of 0.503, a low human development result. The headline needs context: The health component is anchored by life expectancy of 68.6 years. Another part of the dashboard shows that the planetary-pressure adjustment is limited at 1.4%, leaving PHDI at 0.496.
What sits inside Eritrea's HDI
In this country profile, Eritrea's health, education and income inputs are 68.6 life expectancy, 7.3 expected schooling, 5.1 mean schooling and $2,029 GNI per capita in 2021 PPP terms. They belong to the HDI calculation rather than separate DigifyWorld scores. When looking across the UNDP tables, keep missing fields explicitly missing because the evidence is strongest when each metric keeps its own scope.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
The broader UNDP dashboard for Eritrea adds PHDI 0.496 to the HDI result. The indicators add context without becoming a single composite DigifyWorld rating.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
This profile does not show a verified comparable life-satisfaction value for Eritrea. The absence of a published observation is preserved explicitly. When the indicator is reused, preserve the source's country coverage so the page stays faithful to the published evidence.
What Eritrea's numbers say together
For Eritrea, the planetary-pressure adjustment changes the index by 1.4%. Read together, these measures show why human development, distribution, environmental pressure and experienced well-being should not be treated as interchangeable.
For 2023, Eritrea records HDI 0.503 and rank 178 in the UNDP table. The result should be read as a composite of health, schooling and income outcomes. For the profile as a whole, preserve the distinction between level and distribution so the limitation remains visible to the reader.
The PHDI is 0.496, with a 1.4% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Eritrea's HDI?
The UNDP table records Eritrea at 0.503 on HDI in 2023, with global rank 178.
Is an inequality-adjusted HDI available for Eritrea?
The source coverage for Eritrea does not include IHDI in this edition. No proxy is inserted for a value the source does not report.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
A quality-of-life indicator is included for Eritrea only when a dated comparable value is supported by the cited dataset. An unavailable observation remains omitted rather than estimated.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. HDI combines health, education and income. Quality-of-life evidence is presented alongside HDI only when a comparable observation is available.
Sources & methodology
Sources for the development indicators and definitions shown above.
View sources used for this page
Primary source for 2023 HDI and its components, plus IHDI, GDI, GII and PHDI where reported.
Report edition underlying the 2023 human-development indices and ranking.
Data note: Reference years are shown with each indicator; unavailable observations remain unfilled.