Package 'undpcomposite' reference manual

Title:	UNDP Composite Indicators Timeseries
Description:	Provides tidy data on the composite indices of the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024 (HDI, GDI, IHDI, GII and PHDI) and their components as a time series from 1990 to 2022 for 195 countries and territories and 11 UNDP aggregates.
Authors:	Yash Dubey [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2849-970X>), Lars Schöbitz [cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-5015>)
Maintainer:	Lars Schöbitz <[email protected]>
License:	CC BY 4.0
Version:	1.0.2
Built:	2026-10-03 13:40:28 UTC
Source:	https://github.com/openwashdata/undpcomposite

undpcomposite: UNDP composite indices for countries and aggregates, 1990 to 2022

Description

Composite indices from the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024 complete time series: the Human Development Index (HDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII) and the Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI (PHDI), with their components, for 195 countries and territories and 11 UNDP aggregates (development groups, developing regions and the world). One row per country or aggregate and year, from 1990 to 2022. Not every index covers every year; missing values are NA.

Usage

undpcomposite
undpcomposite

Format

A tibble with 6798 rows and 45 variables

iso3: ISO3 country code
country: Country name
hdicode: Human Development Group
region: UNDP developing regions
hdi_rank_2022: HDI Rank in 2022
year: Year of value
hdi: Human Development Index
le: Life Expectancy at Birth (years)
eys: Expected Years of Schooling (years)
mys: Mean Years of Schooling (years)
gnipc: Gross National Income Per Capita (2017 PPP$)
gdi_group: GDI Group
gdi: Gender Development Index (value)
hdi_f: HDI female
le_f: Life Expectancy at Birth, female (years)
eys_f: Expected Years of Schooling, female (years)
mys_f: Mean Years of Schooling, female (years)
gni_pc_f: Gross National Income Per Capita, female (2017 PPP$)
hdi_m: HDI male
le_m: Life Expectancy at Birth, male (years)
eys_m: Expected Years of Schooling, male (years)
mys_m: Mean Years of Schooling, male (years)
gni_pc_m: Gross National Income Per Capita, male (2017 PPP$)
ihdi: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (value)
coef_ineq: Coefficient of human inequality
loss: Overall loss (%)
ineq_le: Inequality in life expectancy
ineq_edu: Inequality in education
ineq_inc: Inequality in income
gii_rank: GII Rank
gii: Gender Inequality Index (value)
mmr: Maternal Mortality Ratio (deaths per 100,000 live births)
abr: Adolescent Birth Rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
se_f: Population with at least some secondary education, female (% ages 25 and older)
se_m: Population with at least some secondary education, male (% ages 25 and older)
pr_f: Share of seats in parliament, female (% held by women)
pr_m: Share of seats in parliament, male (% held by men)
lfpr_f: Labour force participation rate, female (% ages 15 and older)
lfpr_m: Labour force participation rate, male (% ages 15 and older)
rankdiff_hdi_phdi: Difference from HDI rank
phdi: Planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index (value)
diff_hdi_phdi: Difference from HDI value (%)
co2_prod: Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (production) (tonnes)
mf: Material footprint per capita (tonnes)
pop_total: Population, total (millions)

Source

Obtained from the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024, composite indices complete time series (https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/documentation-and-downloads), published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence.

Examples

# HDI of the world aggregate in the first and the last year
world <- undpcomposite[undpcomposite$iso3 == "ZZK.WORLD", ]
world[world$year %in% c("1990", "2022"), c("country", "year", "hdi")]
# HDI of the world aggregate in the first and the last year
world <- undpcomposite[undpcomposite$iso3 == "ZZK.WORLD", ]
world[world$year %in% c("1990", "2022"), c("country", "year", "hdi")]