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.

Complete List

Ranking	Nation	Value
1	Norway	0.938
2	Australia	0.937
3	New Zealand	0.907
4	United States (General)	0.902
5	Ireland	0.895
6	Netherlands	0.890
7	Canada	0.888
8	Germany	0.885
8	Sweden	0.885
9	Japan	0.884
10	Korea, (South) Republic of	0.877
11	Switzerland	0.874
12	France	0.872
12	Israel	0.872
13	Finland	0.871
14	Iceland	0.869
15	Belgium	0.867
16	Denmark	0.866
17	Spain	0.863
18	Hong Kong	0.862
19	Greece	0.855
20	Italy	0.854
21	Luxembourg	0.852
22	Austria	0.851
23	United Kingdom	0.849
24	Singapore	0.846
25	Czech Republic	0.841
26	Slovenia	0.828
27	Slovakia	0.818
28	Malta	0.815
28	United Arab Emirates	0.815
29	Estonia	0.812
30	Cyprus	0.810
31	Brunei	0.805
31	Hungary	0.805
32	Qatar	0.803
33	Bahrain	0.801
34	Poland	0.795
34	Portugal	0.795
35	Barbados	0.788
36	Bahamas, The	0.784
37	Chile	0.783
37	Lithuania	0.783
38	Argentina	0.775
39	Kuwait	0.771
40	Latvia	0.769
40	Montenegro	0.769
41	Croatia	0.767
41	Romania	0.767
42	Uruguay	0.765
43	Libya	0.755
43	Panama	0.755
44	Saudi Arabia	0.752
45	Mexico	0.750
46	Malaysia	0.744
47	Bulgaria	0.743
48	Trinidad and Tobago	0.736
49	Serbia	0.735
50	Belarus	0.732
51	Costa Rica	0.725
52	Peru	0.723
53	Albania	0.719
53	Russia	0.719
54	Kazakhstan	0.714
55	Azerbaijan	0.713
56	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.710
56	Ukraine	0.710
57	Iran	0.702
58	Macedonia	0.701
58	Mauritius	0.701
59	Brazil	0.699
60	Georgia	0.698
61	Venezuela	0.696
62	Armenia	0.695
62	Ecuador	0.695
63	Belize	0.694
64	Colombia	0.689
65	Jamaica	0.688
66	Tunisia	0.683
67	Jordan	0.681
68	Turkey	0.679
69	Algeria	0.677
70	Fiji	0.669
70	Turkmenistan	0.669
71	China	0.663
71	Dominican Republic	0.663
72	El Salvador	0.659
73	Sri Lanka	0.658
74	Thailand	0.654
75	Gabon	0.648
76	Suriname	0.646
77	Bolivia	0.643
78	Paraguay	0.640
79	Philippines	0.638
80	Botswana	0.633
81	Moldova	0.623
82	Mongolia	0.622
83	Egypt	0.620
84	Uzbekistan	0.617
85	Guyana	0.611
86	Namibia	0.606
87	Honduras	0.604
88	Maldives	0.602
89	Indonesia	0.600
90	Kyrgyzstan	0.598
91	South Africa	0.597
92	Syria	0.589
93	Tajikistan	0.580
94	Vietnam	0.572
95	Morocco	0.567
96	Nicaragua	0.565
97	Guatemala	0.560
98	Equatorial Guinea	0.538
99	Cape Verde	0.534
100	India	0.519
101	Timor-Leste	0.502
102	Swaziland	0.498
103	Laos	0.497
104	Cambodia	0.494
104	Solomon Islands	0.494
105	Pakistan	0.490
106	Congo, Republic of the	0.489
107	Kenya	0.470
108	Bangladesh	0.469
109	Ghana	0.467
110	Cameroon	0.460
111	Burma (Myanmar)	0.451
112	Yemen	0.439
113	Benin	0.435
113	Madagascar	0.435
114	Mauritania	0.433
115	Papua New Guinea	0.431
116	Comoros	0.428
116	Nepal	0.428
116	Togo	0.428
117	Lesotho	0.427
118	Nigeria	0.423
119	Uganda	0.422
120	Senegal	0.411
121	Haiti	0.404
122	Angola	0.403
123	Djibouti	0.402
124	Tanzania	0.398
125	Cote d'Ivoire	0.397
126	Zambia	0.395
127	Gambia, The	0.390
128	Malawi	0.385
128	Rwanda	0.385
129	Sudan	0.379
130	Afghanistan	0.349
131	Guinea	0.340
132	Ethiopia	0.328
133	Sierra Leone	0.317
134	Central African Republic	0.315
135	Mali	0.309
136	Burkina Faso	0.305
137	Liberia	0.300
138	Chad	0.295
139	Guinea-Bissau	0.289
140	Mozambique	0.284
141	Burundi	0.282
142	Niger	0.261
143	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0.239
144	Zimbabwe	0.140
--	Bhutan	--
--	Cuba	--
--	Eritrea	--
--	French Guiana	--
--	French Polynesia	--
--	Guadeloupe	--
--	Iraq	--
--	Israeli Occupied Territories (Palestine)	--
--	Korea, (North) Democratic Republic of	--
--	Kosovo	--
--	Lebanon	--
--	Macau	--
--	Martinique	--
--	Mayotte	--
--	New Caledonia	--
--	Oman	--
--	Puerto Rico	--
--	Reunion	--
--	Somalia	--
--	Taiwan	--
--	Vanuatu	--
--	Western Sahara	--

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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