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 livingDIMENSIONSINDICATORSPOVERTY MEASURESMultidimensionalPoverty Index (MPI)DIMENSIONSINDICATORSDIMENSIONINDEXH ealthEmpowermentFemale and male sharesof parliamentary seatsFemale and malepopulation with at leastsecondary educationFemale and male labour forceparticipation ratesFemale labourmarket indexLabour marketMaternal mortalityratioAdolescent birthrateDIMENSIONSINDICATORSGender Inequality Index (GII)Gender Inequality Index (GII)Female empowermentindexFemalegender indexMalegender indexMale labourmarket indexMale empowermentindexFemale reproductivehealth indexDIMENSIONINDEXInequality-adjust

Minimum and maximum values (goalposts) are set in order to transform the indicators expressed in dif-ferent units into indices between 0 and 1. These goalposts act as “the natural zeros” and “aspiration-al targets”, respectively, from which component indi-cators are standardized (see equation 1 below). They are set at the following values:

  Goalposts