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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Information
HDI
The first Human Development Report introduced a new way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income into a composite human development index, the HDI. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension, called goalposts, and then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts, expressed as a value between 0 and 1.
HDI Rank
The 2010 HDI has been calculated for 169 countries and territories. Countries not included because of missing data for one or more components are: Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cuba, Dominica, Eritrea, Grenada, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Oman, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles and Vanuatu. Micronesia has entered the HDI table for the first time this year, while Zimbabwe has re-entered after not being included in 2009 due to missing income values.