Package 'worldhdi'

Title: Human Development Index Worldwide 1990-2022 (2024)
Description: Provides Human Development Index (HDI) trends from 1990 to 2022 for 195 countries and territories (193 of them ranked) and 15 UNDP aggregates (development groups, regions and the world), from the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024 Statistical Annex. It includes HDI ranks, changes in rank and average annual HDI growth.
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: 2026-09-24 05:14:48 UTC
Source: https://github.com/openwashdata/worldhdi

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worldhdi: Human Development Index trends for countries and aggregates, 1990-2022

Description

Human Development Index (HDI) trends for 195 countries and territories and 15 UNDP aggregates (development groups, regions and the world), from the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024. HDI values are given for 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015, and yearly from 2019 to 2022. 193 countries carry an HDI rank for 2022; the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Monaco and the aggregates carry none.

Usage

worldhdi

Format

A data frame with 210 rows and 17 variables

hdi_rank

World rank in the Human Development Index as of 2022

country

Name of the country, territory or UNDP aggregate

hdi_1990

HDI in 1990

hdi_2000

HDI in 2000

hdi_2010

HDI in 2010

hdi_2015

HDI in 2015

hdi_2019

HDI in 2019

hdi_2020

HDI in 2020

hdi_2021

HDI in 2021

hdi_2022

HDI in 2022

rank_change_2015_2022

Change in HDI rank from 2015 to 2022

avg_growth_1990_2000

Average annual HDI growth between 1990 and 2000, in percent

avg_growth_2000_2010

Average annual HDI growth between 2000 and 2010, in percent

avg_growth_2010_2022

Average annual HDI growth between 2010 and 2022, in percent

avg_growth_1990_2022

Average annual HDI growth between 1990 and 2022, in percent

tier_hdi

HDI tier in 2022 as defined by UNDP: Very High (0.800 and above), High (0.700 to 0.799), Medium (0.550 to 0.699), Low (below 0.550)

iso3c

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code; missing for the aggregates

Source

Obtained from the UNDP Human Development Report 2023/2024 Statistical Annex, HDI trends table (https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/documentation-and-downloads), published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence.

Examples

# The ten countries with the highest HDI in 2022
head(worldhdi[order(-worldhdi$hdi_2022), c("country", "hdi_2022", "tier_hdi")], 10)