List of countries by Human Development Index by region

This is a list of countries by the Human Development Index as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report organized by continent or other international regions. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary index assessing countries on 3 dimensions, health, education and standard of living using life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI per capita. The final HDI is a value between 0 and 1 with countries grouped into four categories depending on the value, very high for HDI of 0.800 and above, high from 0.700 to 0.799, medium from 0.550 to 0.699 and low below 0.550.^[1][2]

List of countries by continent[]

Africa[]

Asia[]

Europe[]

North America[]

Oceania[]

Rank	Country	HDI
		2019 data (2020 report) rankings
Very high human development
1	Australia	0.944
2	New Zealand	0.931
3	Palau	0.826
High human development
4	Fiji	0.743
5	Tonga	0.725
6	Samoa	0.715
7	Marshall Islands	0.704
Medium human development
8	Kiribati	0.630
9	Micronesia	0.620
10	Vanuatu	0.609
11	Solomon Islands	0.567
12	Papua New Guinea	0.555

South America[]

Rank	Country	HDI
		2019 data (2020 report) rankings
Very high human development
1	Chile	0.851
2	Argentina	0.845
3	Uruguay	0.817
High human development
4	Peru	0.777
5	Colombia	0.767
6	Brazil	0.765
7	Ecuador	0.759
8	Suriname	0.738
9	Paraguay	0.728
10	Bolivia	0.718
11	Venezuela	0.711
Medium human development
12	Guyana	0.682

List of countries by intercontinental region[]

Arab League[]

Commonwealth of Nations[]

East Asia and the Pacific[]

European Union[]

OECD[]

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[]

Small Island Developing States[]

See also[]

• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
• List of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index

References[]

External links[]

• UN Development Programme Human Development Reports