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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite summary measure of average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Conceived by Mahbub ul Haq with Amartya Sen and first published in the UNDP Human Development Report of 1990, it was designed as a deliberate alternative to GNI per capita, asserting that people and their capabilities — not economic growth alone — are the ultimate criterion for assessing the development of a country. Each dimension is reduced to a normalized index between zero and one, and the three are combined by a geometric mean.

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Human Development Index (HDI)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / development-studies
  • UNDP (2022). Human Development Report 2021-22, Technical Notes. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office, New York. · URL
  • Anand, S., & Sen, A. (1994). Human Development Index: Methodology and Measurement. Human Development Report Office Occasional Paper. UNDP, New York. · URL
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