>The indicators used in the 2022 report were life expectancy at birth; expected years of schooling for children; mean years of schooling for adults; and gross national income per capita. The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1. The geometric mean of the three indices—that is, the cube root of the product of the indices—is the human development index. A value above 0.800 is classified as very high, between 0.700 and 0.799 as high, 0.550 to 0.699 as medium, and below 0.550 as low.
As per every year, we get a new HDI report and I think it is fun to do a map on it.
The data are 2021 numbers, hence Ukraine has not been affected by the Russian invasion or the Turkish one by hyperinflation.
Note that the small changes are not significant for the average person; whether you prefer Iceland or Luxembourg, or Albania and Bosnia, to live in, is a matter or personal preference.
(Even whether you prefer Iceland or Albania, but you get my point).
Biggest improvement over the 2010-2021 period: **Bosnia and Herzegovina** (+10 in rankings), **Moldova** (+9)
Biggest loss over the 2010-2021 period: **Bulgaria** (-9 in rankings), **Czechia** (-6), **Andorra** (-6). Note all these countries still went up in absolute terms, just not as fast as other countries.
A case of r/switzerlandfirst?
I cannot help but notice countries with the highest HDI are not members of the EU.
Former communist nations are about to take over PIGS
And my homeboy Finland *utterly annihilated* by Sweden and the Netherlands : (.
Suddenly Belarus doesn’t look so shitty anymore/s
Portugal
I never thought about it, but what happens when someone finally develops the entire human?
NOOOO!!!!!!! Denmark has 00,1 HDI points more than us!
Well it’s pretty obvious why is Slovakia and Hungary lower, than Czechia and Poland.
Get fucked Finland. Woo!
I know France is a big country with quite the range of HDI values depending on the region but I’m still surprised by the number being lower than Spain and quite far from UK or Belgium, countries that provide the same quality of life and protection to their citizens. Any explanation on that?
Look how they butchered my boy. Covid did a number on my country.
DE 0.01 higher than NL
NL 0.01 higher than FI
DK 0.01 higher than SE
Love it how Slovenia is higher than Austria
Slovenia can into first world!
Daaamn, Icelanddd
HDI comparison between developed countries is kind of pointless. It is basically just doing a GDP per capita comparison by proxy, since life expectancy and years of schooling will be very similar.
Damn, last year we outperformed Russia and Turkey.
i find it laughable how russia and turkey, some of the balkans have a higher hdi than us
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>The indicators used in the 2022 report were life expectancy at birth; expected years of schooling for children; mean years of schooling for adults; and gross national income per capita. The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1. The geometric mean of the three indices—that is, the cube root of the product of the indices—is the human development index. A value above 0.800 is classified as very high, between 0.700 and 0.799 as high, 0.550 to 0.699 as medium, and below 0.550 as low.
[Source](https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2021-22pdf_1.pdf), pages 272-275.
As per every year, we get a new HDI report and I think it is fun to do a map on it.
The data are 2021 numbers, hence Ukraine has not been affected by the Russian invasion or the Turkish one by hyperinflation.
Note that the small changes are not significant for the average person; whether you prefer Iceland or Luxembourg, or Albania and Bosnia, to live in, is a matter or personal preference.
(Even whether you prefer Iceland or Albania, but you get my point).
Biggest improvement over the 2010-2021 period: **Bosnia and Herzegovina** (+10 in rankings), **Moldova** (+9)
Biggest loss over the 2010-2021 period: **Bulgaria** (-9 in rankings), **Czechia** (-6), **Andorra** (-6). Note all these countries still went up in absolute terms, just not as fast as other countries.
A case of r/switzerlandfirst?
I cannot help but notice countries with the highest HDI are not members of the EU.
Former communist nations are about to take over PIGS
And my homeboy Finland *utterly annihilated* by Sweden and the Netherlands : (.
Suddenly Belarus doesn’t look so shitty anymore/s
Portugal
I never thought about it, but what happens when someone finally develops the entire human?
NOOOO!!!!!!! Denmark has 00,1 HDI points more than us!
You can almost make out the blue banana.
Light afternoon reading (the whole reports in multiple languages) can be found here: https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2021-22
Get rekt Sweden
Well it’s pretty obvious why is Slovakia and Hungary lower, than Czechia and Poland.
Get fucked Finland. Woo!
I know France is a big country with quite the range of HDI values depending on the region but I’m still surprised by the number being lower than Spain and quite far from UK or Belgium, countries that provide the same quality of life and protection to their citizens. Any explanation on that?
Look how they butchered my boy. Covid did a number on my country.
DE 0.01 higher than NL
NL 0.01 higher than FI
DK 0.01 higher than SE
Love it how Slovenia is higher than Austria
Slovenia can into first world!
Daaamn, Icelanddd
HDI comparison between developed countries is kind of pointless. It is basically just doing a GDP per capita comparison by proxy, since life expectancy and years of schooling will be very similar.
Damn, last year we outperformed Russia and Turkey.
i find it laughable how russia and turkey, some of the balkans have a higher hdi than us
nobody will find this true lmao