Human Development & Quality of Life in Venezuela
Human Development
Venezuela's 2023 HDI is 0.709, placing it 121 in UNDP's table and in the high human development category. What makes the country profile more informative than the rank alone is that planetary pressures reduce the adjusted index to 0.652, a 8.0% change from HDI. Separately, the income component uses GNI per capita of $7,157 in 2021 PPP dollars.
What sits inside Venezuela's HDI
For Venezuela, health contributes through life expectancy of 72.5; education through 13.0 expected and 9.7 mean years of schooling; and income through GNI per capita of $7,157 in 2021 PPP dollars. Those are the published inputs behind the 2023 HDI.
Inequality changes the headline
The inequality-adjusted measure for Venezuela applies a distribution penalty to the same three HDI dimensions. It should therefore be read alongside HDI, not as a separate life-satisfaction score.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
Beyond HDI, Venezuela's UNDP profile also reports GDI 0.993, GII 0.512, PHDI 0.652. These measures answer different questions, so they are kept separate.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
A comparable life-satisfaction observation was not available in the OECD extract used for Venezuela. No proxy is inserted for a value the source does not report.
What Venezuela's numbers say together
Within the UNDP framework, the complementary evidence for Venezuela includes IHDI 0.605 with a 14.7% loss; PHDI 0.652 after a 8.0% adjustment; GDI 0.993. They complement one another, but none is treated as a substitute for another.
Venezuela's HDI is 0.709 for 2023, placing it at UNDP rank 121. The index summarizes health, education and income rather than every dimension of day-to-day well-being. When the indicator is reused, use the UNDP definition rather than a proxy so the page stays faithful to the published evidence.
The IHDI is 0.605, and UNDP reports an overall loss of 14.7% relative to the headline index.
The GDI value is 0.993 in group 1; it should be read alongside, not merged into, HDI.
The PHDI is 0.652, with a 8.0% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Venezuela's HDI?
In the Human Development Report 2025, Venezuela is listed at HDI 0.709 for 2023, rank 121.
How does inequality affect Venezuela's HDI?
IHDI for Venezuela is 0.605 in the 2023 table. That represents a 14.7% reduction from the headline development index.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
For Venezuela, 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. HDI is built from health, schooling and income indicators. A life-satisfaction result is not an input to HDI and remains a separate quality-of-life signal.
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.