The 2010 Human Development Index (HDI) is a way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income into a composite human development index, and ranges from 0 to 1, with 1 representing the highest level of human development. Source: The United Nations Human Development Reports.

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Ranking	Region	Value
1	Australia/New Zealand	0.922
2	Northern America	0.895
3	Western Europe	0.873
4	Northern Europe	0.865
5	Southern Europe	0.789
6	Eastern Asia	0.782
7	Eastern Europe	0.755
8	Western Asia	0.723
9	South America	0.697
10	Central America	0.664
11	The World	0.637
12	South-Eastern Asia	0.618
13	Northern Africa	0.614
14	South-Central Asia	0.569
15	Southern Africa	0.552
16	Melanesia	0.531
17	Middle Africa	0.431
18	Eastern Africa	0.390
19	Western Africa	0.377
--	Caribbean	--
--	Micronesia (Region)	--
--	Polynesia	--

Source

The data presented in QuickLists are from a variety of sources including the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base, the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report, the United Nations Human Development Reports, and others.

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