Human Development & Quality of Life in Paraguay
Human Development
UNDP places Paraguay at rank 99 with a 2023 HDI of 0.756, a high human development result. More revealing for this profile, the inequality adjustment is one of the most consequential parts of this profile: IHDI falls to 0.599, a 20.8% loss. At the same time, planetary pressures reduce the adjusted index to 0.689, a 8.9% change from HDI.
What sits inside Paraguay's HDI
In the figures presented here, Paraguay's health, education and income inputs are 73.8 life expectancy, 14.0 expected schooling, 8.9 mean schooling and $15,252 GNI per capita in 2021 PPP terms. They belong to the HDI calculation rather than separate DigifyWorld scores.
Inequality changes the headline
IHDI reframes Paraguay's HDI by accounting for unequal outcomes within the population. That is a different question from how satisfied people say they are with life.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
Alongside the headline HDI, the published data for Paraguay include GDI 0.988, GII 0.412, PHDI 0.689. They complement one another, but none is treated as a substitute for another.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
The OECD comparison used here does not provide a life-satisfaction observation that this Paraguay page can reproduce. A missing source value is shown as unavailable.
What Paraguay's numbers say together
Paraguay's additional indicators read as IHDI 0.599 with a 20.8% loss; PHDI 0.689 after a 8.9% adjustment; GDI 0.988. The indicators add context without becoming a single composite DigifyWorld rating.
For 2023, Paraguay records HDI 0.756 and rank 99 in the UNDP table. The result should be read as a composite of health, schooling and income outcomes. When the indicator is reused, preserve the source's country coverage so the source year is not silently treated as the publication year.
The IHDI is 0.599, and UNDP reports an overall loss of 20.8% relative to the headline index.
The GDI value is 0.988 in group 1; it should be read alongside, not merged into, HDI.
The PHDI is 0.689, with a 8.9% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Paraguay's HDI?
Paraguay's 2023 Human Development Index is 0.756, corresponding to UNDP rank 99 in the 2025 report.
How does inequality affect Paraguay's HDI?
IHDI for Paraguay is 0.599 in the 2023 table. That represents a 20.8% reduction from the headline development index.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
Quality-of-life data for Paraguay appear only when the page can tie the value to a comparable source and year. The absence of a published observation is preserved explicitly.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. UNDP's HDI focuses on longevity, 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.