Technical notes - United Nations Development Programme

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Technical notesCalculating the human Development indices graphical presentationInequality-adjustedHuman DevelopmentIndex (IHDI)KnowledgeMean yearsof schoolingExpected yearsof schoolingEducation indexLife expectancy indexHuman Development Index (HDI)Life expectancy at birthGNI indexGNI per capita (PPP $)DIMENSIONSINDICATORSDIMENSIONINDEXLong and healthy lifeA decent standard of livingHuman DevelopmentIndex (HDI)KnowledgeLong and healthy lifeA decent standard of livingYears of schoolingLife expectancyInequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)Life expectancy at birthIncome/consumptionGNI per capita (PPP $)HealthEducationSchoolattendanceYearsof schoolingHeadcountratioIntensityof povertyMultidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)Standard of liv

• Mean years of schooling, using household surveys data harmonized in international databases, in-cluding the Luxembourg Income Study, Eurostat’s European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions, the World Bank’s International Income Distribution Database, ICF Macro’s Demographic and Health Surveys, United Nations Children’s

  Health, Survey, Household