List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index

The following tables covers the list of Latin American countries by Human Development Index as released by the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for regions worldwide.

Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high (for developed countries), high and medium (for developing countries) and low (for least developing countries).

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The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Latin America as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released in 2020).^[1] Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in Table 2 of the Statistical Annex of the Human Development Report. The HDI rankings and values in the 2020 Human Development Report cannot therefore be compared directly to HDI rankings and values published in previous Human Development Reports.

Rank		Country	Human Development Index (HDI)
Region	World		HDI value		Change in HDI value 2018–19*
			2019	2018
Very High Human Development
1	43	Chile	0.851	0.847	0.004
2	46	Argentina	0.845	0.830	0.015
3	55	Uruguay	0.817	0.808	0.009
4	57	Panama	0.815	0.795	0.020
5	62	Costa Rica	0.810	0.794	0.016
High Human Development
6	70	Cuba	0.783	0.778	0.005
7	74	Mexico	0.779	0.767	0.012
8	79	Peru	0.777	0.759	0.018
9	83	Colombia	0.767	0.761	0.006
10	84	Brazil	0.765	0.761	0.004
11	86	Ecuador	0.759	0.758	0.001
12	88	Dominican Republic	0.756	0.745	0.011
13	103	Paraguay	0.728	0.724	0.004
14	107	Bolivia	0.718	0.703	0.015
15	110	Belize	0.716	0.720	0.004
16	113	Venezuela	0.711	0.726	0.015
Medium Human Development
17	124	El Salvador	0.673	0.667	0.006
18	127	Guatemala	0.663	0.651	0.012
19	128	Nicaragua	0.660	0.651	0.009
20	132	Honduras	0.634	0.623	0.011
Low Human Development
21	170	Haiti	0.510	0.503	0.007
*Change in HDI value rounded to three decimals

See also[]

• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of countries by Human Development Index by region
• List of countries by industrial production growth rate
• List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
• List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP growth
• List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP (nominal)
• List of Latin American and Caribbean countries by GDP (PPP)
• List of Latin American countries by population

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