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 i

For example, LE 1, LE 2 and LE 3 denote three quartiles of the distribution of life expectancy across countries. This Report keeps the same cutoff points on the HDI for grouping countries that were introduced in the 2014 Report: Very high human development 0.800 and above High human development 0.700–0.799 Medium human development 0.550–0.699

  Development, Human, Human development