Aiming to establish the quality of life of different populations, the United Nations (UN), through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), created an indicator called the Human Development Index (HDI).
To obtain the HDI for a given place, three aspects are analyzed:
- Level of education: average years of schooling in the adult population and expected number of years of schooling.
- Income: Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, based on the purchasing power parity of the inhabitants.
- Health level: obtained through the population's life expectancy. This item is a reflection of the quality of health and environmental sanitation services.
These three aspects were added together and the final result was divided by three (simple calculation). However, as of 2010, a new method started to be used, where the final result of the HDI is obtained through the geometric mean of the three items analyzed, that is, the three items are multiplied and the cubic root of the result.
This indicator ranges from 0 to 1, the closer it gets to 1, the higher the HDI of a nation. According to data released in 2010 by the UN, Human Development Indexes are considered to be extremely high to those with an average above 0.787. The ranking is made up of 169 countries, with the 25% best average (42 countries) having a very high HDI. Check out the list of these countries with high socioeconomic status:
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1st Norway: 0.938.
2nd Australia: 0.937.
3rd New Zealand: 0.907.
4th United States: 0.902.
5° Ireland: 0.895.
6th Liechtenstein: 0.891.
7th Netherlands (Netherlands): 0.890.
8th Canada: 0.888.
9th Sweden: 0.885.
10th Germany: 0.885.
11th Japan: 0.884.
12th South Korea: 0.877.
13th Switzerland: 0.874.
14th France: 0.872.
15th Israel: 0.872.
16th Finland: 0.871.
17th Iceland: 0.869.
18th Belgium: 0.867.
19° Denmark: 0.866.
20° Spain: 0.863.
21st Hong Kong: 0.862.
22nd Greece: 0.855.
23° Italy: 0.854.
24th Luxembourg: 0.852.
25th Austria: 0.851.
26th United Kingdom: 0.849.
27th Singapore: 0.846.
28th Czech Republic: 0.841.
29th Slovenia: 0.828.
30th Andorra: 0.824.
31st Slovakia: 0.818.
32nd UAE: 0.815.
33rd Malta: 0.815.
34th Estonia: 0.812.
35th Cyprus: 0.810.
36° Hungary: 0.805.
37th Brunei: 0.805.
38th Qatar: 0.803.
39th Bahrain: 0.801.
40° Portugal: 0.795.
41st Poland: 0.795.
42nd Barbados: 0.788.
By Wagner de Cerqueira and Francisco
Graduated in Geography
Brazil School Team
Curiosities - geography - Brazil School
