Human Development & Quality of Life in Palestine
HDI 0.674 · UNDP rank 133 · latest published data
In UNDP's 2023 index data, Palestine has HDI 0.674 and rank 133, which corresponds to medium human development. What makes the country profile more informative than the rank alone is that the income component uses GNI per capita of $6,547 in 2021 PPP dollars. Separately, the inequality adjustment is one of the most consequential parts of this profile: IHDI falls to 0.538, a 20.2% loss.
What sits inside Palestine's HDI
Palestine's HDI can be read through four underlying inputs for 2023: 65.2 life expectancy, 13.0 expected schooling, 10.1 mean schooling and GNI per capita of $6,547 in 2021 PPP dollars. The components are inputs to HDI, not independent country league tables.
Inequality changes the headline
In Palestine's profile, IHDI shows the effect of inequality on health, education and income achievements. The page keeps this distribution measure distinct from broader quality-of-life evidence.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
Beyond the headline HDI, Palestine has GDI 0.945 in group 3; PHDI 0.653, a 3.1% adjustment from HDI. Each index answers a different question, so the dashboard keeps the values separate instead of collapsing them into a DigifyWorld score.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
No comparable OECD life-satisfaction observation is published on this page for Palestine. The absence of a published observation is preserved explicitly.
What Palestine's numbers say together
On this page, the complementary evidence for Palestine includes IHDI 0.538 with a 20.2% loss; PHDI 0.653 after a 3.1% adjustment; GDI 0.945. Reading them together is useful, but combining them would obscure their different definitions.
HDI for Palestine stands at 0.674 in 2023, with UNDP rank 133. It is a development benchmark based on three dimensions, not an all-purpose national score.
The IHDI is 0.538, and UNDP reports an overall loss of 20.2% relative to the headline index.
The GDI value is 0.945 in group 3; it should be read alongside, not merged into, HDI.
The PHDI is 0.653, with a 3.1% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Palestine's HDI?
For the 2023 observation year, UNDP reports HDI 0.674 and rank 133 for Palestine.
How does inequality affect Palestine's HDI?
UNDP reports IHDI 0.538 for Palestine, which is 20.2% below the headline HDI after inequality across the three dimensions is taken into account.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
For Palestine, subjective well-being is shown only with a verified comparable observation. Missing source coverage is shown as a limitation, not filled with an estimate.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. UNDP's HDI focuses on longevity, education and income. A subjective well-being observation is contextual information here, not an HDI component. For the evidence on this page, keep missing fields explicitly missing so the limitation remains visible to the reader.
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.