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Augmented Human Development Index (excluding income) by country

The AHDI seeks to give a historical perspective on human development, in four dimensions: healthy life, knowledge, and civil and political freedom. This indicator excludes the income-based wellbeing component.

Countries reporting
160
Highest
0.8802
Switzerland
Lowest
0.0791
Eritrea
Median
0.3396
Years covered
151
1870–2020
Data points
3,421

What the numbers show

Augmented Human Development Index (excluding income) is currently reported for 160 countries. The highest value is 0.8802 in Switzerland; the lowest is 0.0791 in Eritrea.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.3396, and the mean is 0.3949.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 11.

Over the past decade 126 countries rose and 34 fell. The largest increase was in Myanmar (up 120.3%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 42.1%).

Augmented Human Development Index (excluding income): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Switzerland 0.8802 2020 up 15.1% rising
2 Japan 0.8473 2020 up 7.4% volatile
3 Australia 0.8278 2020 up 4.9% rising
4 Germany 0.8242 2020 up 12.0% volatile
5 Iceland 0.8241 2020 up 22.9% rising
6 Norway 0.8183 2020 up 11.7% rising
7 Canada 0.8055 2020 up 9.5% rising
8 New Zealand 0.7939 2020 up 10.9% rising
9 South Korea 0.7851 2020 up 13.7% volatile
10 Sweden 0.7726 2020 up 8.7% rising
11 Denmark 0.7687 2020 up 13.2% rising
12 Finland 0.7589 2020 up 12.2% volatile
13 United Kingdom 0.75 2020 up 0.9% rising
14 Israel 0.742 2020 up 13.5% rising
15 Estonia 0.732 2020 up 24.3% rising
16 Netherlands 0.7304 2020 up 9.7% rising
19 Austria 0.6946 2020 up 6.9% rising
20 United States 0.694 2020 down 7.5% rising
21 France 0.6914 2020 down 4.3% rising
22 Belgium 0.6913 2020 up 7.9% rising
23 Cyprus 0.6854 2020 up 23.2% volatile
24 Slovenia 0.6693 2020 up 2.3% rising
25 Taiwan 0.6638 2020 up 14.8% volatile
26 Lithuania 0.6618 2020 up 17.1% rising
27 Czechia 0.6558 2020 up 9.0% volatile
28 Italy 0.6535 2020 down 0.2% volatile
29 Spain 0.6519 2020 up 2.0% volatile
30 Slovakia 0.6505 2020 up 16.2% rising
31 Latvia 0.646 2020 up 25.1% rising
32 Greece 0.6312 2020 up 1.6% volatile
33 Chile 0.6015 2020 up 2.5% volatile
34 Croatia 0.5983 2020 up 5.0% rising
35 Portugal 0.5869 2020 up 12.7% volatile
36 Bahamas 0.577 2020 up 7.4% rising
37 Poland 0.5663 2020 up 6.0% volatile
38 Costa Rica 0.5453 2020 up 3.5% rising
39 Argentina 0.538 2020 up 15.7% volatile
40 Singapore 0.5361 2020 up 16.3% volatile
41 Hong Kong 0.5359 2020 up 3.8% volatile
42 Trinidad and Tobago 0.5357 2020 up 15.5% rising
43 Uruguay 0.5276 2020 up 3.2% rising
44 Georgia 0.5241 2020 up 30.2% rising
45 Barbados 0.5176 2020 up 4.8% rising
46 Romania 0.5108 2020 up 10.0% volatile
47 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.5004 2020 up 10.0% rising
48 Panama 0.4969 2020 up 9.1% rising
49 Armenia 0.4961 2020 up 48.4% rising
50 Peru 0.4863 2020 up 8.3% volatile
51 Bulgaria 0.4836 2020 down 3.9% volatile
52 Hungary 0.473 2020 down 11.0% volatile
53 Albania 0.4729 2020 up 4.4% volatile
54 Suriname 0.4591 2020 up 20.1% rising
55 Moldova 0.4587 2020 up 12.8% rising
56 Jamaica 0.4549 2020 up 0.9% volatile
57 Belize 0.4537 2020 down 11.7% rising
58 Mauritius 0.4466 2020 up 4.2% volatile
59 Saint Lucia 0.4446 2020 up 3.7% rising
60 Sri Lanka 0.4442 2020 up 34.2% volatile
61 Seychelles 0.4434 2020 up 10.9% rising
62 South Africa 0.4422 2020 up 24.2% volatile
63 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.435 2020 up 2.6% rising
64 Mongolia 0.4212 2020 up 6.4% volatile
65 Tunisia 0.42 2020 up 94.6% volatile
66 Colombia 0.4136 2020 up 6.4% volatile
67 Malaysia 0.4027 2020 up 22.3% volatile
68 Serbia 0.4022 2020 down 12.6% volatile
69 Ukraine 0.3981 2020 up 4.9% rising
70 Ecuador 0.3969 2020 up 12.3% volatile
71 Brazil 0.3965 2020 down 12.4% volatile
72 Botswana 0.3945 2020 up 3.0% volatile
73 Paraguay 0.3842 2020 up 2.7% volatile
74 Kyrgyzstan 0.3745 2020 up 16.2% rising
75 Mexico 0.3715 2020 down 5.7% volatile
76 Ghana 0.3683 2020 up 21.0% volatile
77 Dominican Republic 0.3683 2020 up 21.1% rising
78 Lebanon 0.365 2020 down 1.5% volatile
79 Jordan 0.3635 2020 up 14.9% volatile
80 Brunei 0.3608 2020 up 14.9% rising
81 Indonesia 0.3592 2020 down 0.1% volatile
82 Guyana 0.3454 2020 up 2.0% rising
83 Philippines 0.3338 2020 down 5.2% volatile
84 Sao Tome and Principe 0.3318 2020 up 18.7% volatile
85 Kuwait 0.3286 2020 up 4.0% volatile
86 United Arab Emirates 0.3271 2020 up 32.8% volatile
87 Oman 0.3258 2020 up 26.5% volatile
88 Namibia 0.3199 2020 up 17.4% volatile
89 El Salvador 0.3196 2020 up 2.5% volatile
90 Thailand 0.3195 2020 down 9.9% volatile
91 Cuba 0.3079 2020 up 23.8% volatile
92 Iran 0.3064 2020 up 26.3% volatile
93 Kazakhstan 0.3025 2020 up 6.1% rising
94 Russia 0.3004 2020 up 0.3% volatile
95 Guatemala 0.2979 2020 up 1.5% volatile
96 Bolivia 0.2927 2020 down 11.7% volatile
97 India 0.2911 2020 down 0.9% volatile
98 Nepal 0.2892 2020 up 10.6% volatile
99 Gabon 0.2842 2020 up 15.9% volatile
100 Qatar 0.2798 2020 up 7.0% volatile
101 Iraq 0.2759 2020 up 4.1% volatile
102 Kenya 0.2747 2020 up 7.0% volatile
103 Honduras 0.2745 2020 up 9.0% volatile
104 Belarus 0.2696 2020 down 0.2% rising
105 Uzbekistan 0.2672 2020 up 55.4% rising
106 Morocco 0.2661 2020 up 19.6% volatile
107 Tanzania 0.2659 2020 up 10.7% volatile
108 Algeria 0.2657 2020 up 3.1% volatile
109 Lesotho 0.258 2020 up 15.5% volatile
110 Liberia 0.2569 2020 up 11.0% volatile
111 Myanmar 0.2566 2020 up 120.3% volatile
112 Egypt 0.2563 2020 up 6.0% volatile
113 Zambia 0.254 2020 down 4.5% volatile
114 Malawi 0.2539 2020 up 12.6% volatile
115 Turkey 0.253 2020 down 25.2% volatile
116 Libya 0.2512 2020 up 45.4% volatile
117 Vietnam 0.2491 2020 up 14.6% volatile
118 Nigeria 0.247 2020 up 22.8% volatile
119 Zimbabwe 0.2463 2020 up 21.2% volatile
120 Senegal 0.2455 2020 up 6.8% volatile
121 Gambia 0.2407 2020 up 70.4% volatile
122 Bahrain 0.239 2020 up 7.3% volatile
123 Venezuela 0.2377 2020 down 6.8% volatile
124 Sierra Leone 0.2328 2020 up 24.4% volatile
125 Saudi Arabia 0.2285 2020 up 20.1% volatile
126 Madagascar 0.2219 2020 up 47.8% volatile
127 Cote d'Ivoire 0.2214 2020 up 16.8% volatile
128 Uganda 0.2212 2020 up 12.7% volatile
129 Haiti 0.2188 2020 up 37.3% volatile
130 Bangladesh 0.2182 2020 up 7.1% rising
131 Azerbaijan 0.2094 2020 down 7.2% rising
132 Pakistan 0.208 2020 down 6.8% rising
133 Angola 0.2027 2020 up 26.1% volatile
134 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.2023 2020 up 38.1% volatile
135 Benin 0.2003 2020 down 8.1% volatile
136 Guinea-Bissau 0.1999 2020 up 32.0% volatile
137 Tajikistan 0.1974 2020 down 3.2% rising
138 Togo 0.1968 2020 up 1.9% volatile
139 Mauritania 0.1937 2020 down 1.9% volatile
140 Burkina Faso 0.1857 2020 up 29.3% volatile
141 Congo 0.181 2020 up 12.5% volatile
142 China 0.1805 2020 down 4.5% volatile
143 Cameroon 0.1789 2020 down 0.3% volatile
144 Niger 0.1763 2020 up 60.7% volatile
145 Nicaragua 0.1742 2020 down 35.3% volatile
146 Rwanda 0.1731 2020 up 14.9% volatile
147 Mozambique 0.1715 2020 up 7.5% volatile
148 Central African Republic 0.171 2020 up 21.9% volatile
149 Eswatini 0.1667 2020 up 16.4% volatile
150 Laos 0.166 2020 up 9.0% volatile
151 Ethiopia 0.16 2020 up 41.2% volatile
152 Afghanistan 0.156 2020 down 13.3% volatile
153 Mali 0.1548 2020 down 5.2% volatile
154 Cambodia 0.1535 2020 down 19.2% volatile
155 Sudan 0.1393 2020 up 14.0% volatile
156 Equatorial Guinea 0.1314 2020 up 7.1% rising
157 Syria 0.1277 2020 down 30.8% volatile
158 Guinea 0.1177 2020 down 0.5% volatile
159 Chad 0.1035 2020 up 23.7% volatile
160 Burundi 0.1018 2020 down 23.0% volatile
161 Yemen 0.0952 2020 down 42.1% volatile
162 Eritrea 0.0791 2020 up 24.7% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Augmented Human Development Index (excluding income)
Source
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2021) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
163 places, 3,421 data points, 1870–2020
Last refreshed

The AHDI seeks to give a historical perspective on human development, in four dimensions: healthy life, knowledge, and civil and political freedom. This indicator excludes the income-based wellbeing component.