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Human Development Index by country — world rankings

Ranking 165 countries with data.

Human Development Index

Rank Country Value
1 Iceland 0.972 (2023)
2 Norway 0.970 (2023)
3 Switzerland 0.970 (2023)
4 Denmark 0.962 (2023)
5 Germany 0.959 (2023)
6 Sweden 0.959 (2023)
7 Australia 0.958 (2023)
8 Netherlands 0.955 (2023)
9 Belgium 0.951 (2023)
10 Ireland 0.949 (2023)
11 Finland 0.948 (2023)
12 United Kingdom 0.946 (2023)
13 United Arab Emirates 0.940 (2023)
14 Canada 0.939 (2023)
15 New Zealand 0.938 (2023)
16 United States 0.938 (2023)
17 South Korea 0.937 (2023)
18 Slovenia 0.931 (2023)
19 Austria 0.930 (2023)
20 Japan 0.925 (2023)
21 Luxembourg 0.922 (2023)
22 France 0.920 (2023)
23 Israel 0.919 (2023)
24 Spain 0.918 (2023)
25 Czechia 0.915 (2023)
26 Italy 0.915 (2023)
27 Cyprus 0.913 (2023)
28 Greece 0.908 (2023)
29 Poland 0.906 (2023)
30 Estonia 0.905 (2023)
31 Saudi Arabia 0.900 (2023)
32 Lithuania 0.895 (2023)
33 Portugal 0.890 (2023)
34 Croatia 0.889 (2023)
35 Latvia 0.889 (2023)
36 Qatar 0.886 (2023)
37 Slovakia 0.880 (2023)
38 Chile 0.878 (2023)
39 Hungary 0.870 (2023)
40 Argentina 0.865 (2023)
41 Montenegro 0.862 (2023)
42 Uruguay 0.862 (2023)
43 Oman 0.858 (2023)
44 Turkey 0.853 (2023)
45 Kuwait 0.852 (2023)
46 Bulgaria 0.845 (2023)
47 Romania 0.845 (2023)
48 Georgia 0.844 (2023)
49 Panama 0.839 (2023)
50 Brunei 0.837 (2023)
51 Kazakhstan 0.837 (2023)
52 Costa Rica 0.833 (2023)
53 Serbia 0.833 (2023)
54 Russia 0.832 (2023)
55 Belarus 0.824 (2023)
56 Bahamas 0.820 (2023)
57 Malaysia 0.819 (2023)
58 Macedonia 0.815 (2023)
59 Armenia 0.811 (2023)
60 Albania 0.810 (2023)
61 Trinidad and Tobago 0.807 (2023)
62 Bosnia and Herz. 0.804 (2023)
63 Iran 0.799 (2023)
64 Thailand 0.798 (2023)
65 China 0.797 (2023)
66 Peru 0.794 (2023)
67 Azerbaijan 0.789 (2023)
68 Mexico 0.789 (2023)
69 Colombia 0.788 (2023)
70 Brazil 0.786 (2023)
71 Moldova 0.785 (2023)
72 Ukraine 0.779 (2023)
73 Ecuador 0.777 (2023)
74 Dominican Rep. 0.776 (2023)
75 Guyana 0.776 (2023)
76 Sri Lanka 0.776 (2023)
77 Vietnam 0.766 (2023)
78 Turkmenistan 0.764 (2023)
79 Algeria 0.763 (2023)
80 Cuba 0.762 (2023)
81 Paraguay 0.756 (2023)
82 Egypt 0.754 (2023)
83 Jordan 0.754 (2023)
84 Lebanon 0.752 (2023)
85 Mongolia 0.747 (2023)
86 Tunisia 0.746 (2023)
87 South Africa 0.741 (2023)
88 Uzbekistan 0.740 (2023)
89 Bolivia 0.733 (2023)
90 Gabon 0.733 (2023)
91 Botswana 0.731 (2023)
92 Fiji 0.731 (2023)
93 Indonesia 0.728 (2023)
94 Suriname 0.722 (2023)
95 Belize 0.721 (2023)
96 Libya 0.721 (2023)
97 Jamaica 0.720 (2023)
98 Kyrgyzstan 0.720 (2023)
99 Philippines 0.720 (2023)
100 Morocco 0.710 (2023)
101 Venezuela 0.709 (2023)
102 Nicaragua 0.706 (2023)
103 Bhutan 0.698 (2023)
104 eSwatini 0.695 (2023)
105 Iraq 0.695 (2023)
106 Tajikistan 0.691 (2023)
107 Bangladesh 0.685 (2023)
108 India 0.685 (2023)
109 El Salvador 0.678 (2023)
110 Eq. Guinea 0.674 (2023)
111 Palestine 0.674 (2023)
112 Namibia 0.665 (2023)
113 Guatemala 0.662 (2023)
114 Congo 0.649 (2023)
115 Honduras 0.645 (2023)
116 Timor-Leste 0.634 (2023)
117 Ghana 0.628 (2023)
118 Kenya 0.628 (2023)
119 Nepal 0.622 (2023)
120 Vanuatu 0.621 (2023)
121 Laos 0.617 (2023)
122 Angola 0.616 (2023)
123 Myanmar 0.609 (2023)
124 Cambodia 0.606 (2023)
125 Zimbabwe 0.598 (2023)
126 Zambia 0.595 (2023)
127 Cameroon 0.588 (2023)
128 Solomon Is. 0.584 (2023)
129 Côte d'Ivoire 0.582 (2023)
130 Uganda 0.582 (2023)
131 Rwanda 0.578 (2023)
132 Papua New Guinea 0.576 (2023)
133 Togo 0.571 (2023)
134 Syria 0.564 (2023)
135 Mauritania 0.563 (2023)
136 Nigeria 0.560 (2023)
137 Tanzania 0.555 (2023)
138 Haiti 0.554 (2023)
139 Lesotho 0.550 (2023)
140 Pakistan 0.544 (2023)
141 Senegal 0.530 (2023)
142 Gambia 0.524 (2023)
143 Dem. Rep. Congo 0.522 (2023)
144 Malawi 0.517 (2023)
145 Benin 0.515 (2023)
146 Guinea-Bissau 0.514 (2023)
147 Djibouti 0.513 (2023)
148 Sudan 0.511 (2023)
149 Liberia 0.510 (2023)
150 Eritrea 0.503 (2023)
151 Guinea 0.500 (2023)
152 Ethiopia 0.497 (2023)
153 Afghanistan 0.496 (2023)
154 Mozambique 0.493 (2023)
155 Madagascar 0.487 (2023)
156 Yemen 0.470 (2023)
157 Sierra Leone 0.467 (2023)
158 Burkina Faso 0.459 (2023)
159 Burundi 0.439 (2023)
160 Mali 0.419 (2023)
161 Niger 0.419 (2023)
162 Chad 0.416 (2023)
163 Central African Rep. 0.414 (2023)
164 Somalia 0.404 (2023)
165 S. Sudan 0.388 (2023)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 165 countries with data is 0.754 — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).