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Topic 06 of 12 · Country Index 2026
Andorra: Development & Human Capital
Is a country turning its resources into better lives?
Andorra is placed 32nd of 194 countries on development & human capital in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: Maternal Mortality Ratio 10.63 (2023); Human Development Index 0.913 (2023).
Development & Human Capital
32nd
of 194 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 3 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Andorra on development & human capital — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country in that edition, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
Maternal Mortality Ratio
UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG)
Why it is a key: Whether a woman survives giving birth — the reach of a health system at the moment it is hardest to fake.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
10.63
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
Lower is better
Andorra: 10.63. Across the 195 countries in this edition, values run from 0.11 (Cook Islands) to 992.83 (Nigeria); the world median is 46.65.
- World median
- 46.65
- Best in Southern Europe
- 2.72 Spain
- Land neighbours
- Spain 2.72 · France 7.3
Each grey tick is one of 195 countries in the 2023 edition.
Key 2 of 3
Human Development Index
UNDP Human Development Report Office
Why it is a key: The standard composite of health, schooling and income, carrying UNDP's own published rank.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
0.913
HDI score (0–1)
Higher is better
Ranked 32nd of 193 by UNDP Human Development Report Office
Andorra: 0.913. Across the 193 countries in this edition, values run from 0.388 (South Sudan) to 0.972 (Iceland); the world median is 0.762.
- World median
- 0.762
- Best in Southern Europe
- 0.931 Slovenia
- Land neighbours
- Spain 0.918 · France 0.92
Each grey tick is one of 193 countries in the 2023 edition.
Key 3 of 3
Cereal Yield
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Why it is a key: How much food a hectare of land produces: the clearest single measure of agricultural productivity.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY 4.0
No reading
Cereal yield (kg per hectare)
Higher is better
FAO publishes no 2023 figure for Andorra, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 179 countries in this edition, values run from 23 (Cabo Verde) to 29,147 (Oman); the world median is 3,072.
- World median
- 3,072
- Best in Southern Europe
- 6,287 Slovenia
- Land neighbours
- Spain 2,191 · France 7,274
Each grey tick is one of 179 countries in the 2023 edition.
02Over time
Which way Andorra is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Maternal Mortality Ratio
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births · lower is better
AndorraWorld median
Andorra fell from 14.02 in 2000 to 10.63 in 2023; the world median went from 70.99 to 46.65.
Every year’s figures
Year Andorra World median 2023 10.63 46.7 2022 16.60 53.0 2021 17.81 76.6 2020 48.45 56.0 2019 10.64 48.4 2018 10.78 49.3 2017 11.10 47.2 2016 9.83 50.6 2015 9.93 51.9 2014 9.71 52.8 2013 9.49 53.3 2012 11.05 54.6 2011 10.94 55.0 2010 12.14 56.1 2009 11.50 56.3 2008 11.60 55.8 2007 11.74 56.8 2006 10.71 58.1 2005 12.67 60.1 2004 11.68 63.0 2003 12.52 66.8 2002 13.59 66.0 2001 13.87 68.1 2000 14.02 71.0 Human Development Index
HDI score (0–1) · higher is better
AndorraWorld median
Andorra rose from 0.825 in 2000 to 0.913 in 2023; the world median went from 0.672 to 0.762.
Every year’s figures
Year Andorra World median 2023 0.913 0.7620 2022 0.893 0.7610 2021 0.871 0.7450 2020 0.851 0.7425 2019 0.876 0.7515 2018 0.875 0.7520 2017 0.873 0.7480 2016 0.872 0.7500 2015 0.869 0.7430 2014 0.866 0.7410 2013 0.862 0.7390 2012 0.876 0.7350 2011 0.875 0.7250 2010 0.870 0.7250 2009 0.866 0.7220 2008 0.864 0.7180 2007 0.859 0.7100 2006 0.851 0.7045 2005 0.842 0.6960 2004 0.849 0.6960 2003 0.840 0.6910 2002 0.838 0.6845 2001 0.832 0.6770 2000 0.825 0.6720
03In context
Andorra beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 194 countries on development & human capital, never a place within the region.
1st194thNot placed · 30 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Andorra and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 194 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | Maternal Mortality RatioMaternal deaths per 100,000 live births | Human Development IndexHDI score (0–1) | Cereal YieldCereal yield (kg per hectare) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 France | 17th | 7.3 | 0.92 | 7,274 |
| Andorra | 32nd | 10.63 | 0.913 | — |
 Spain | 49th | 2.72 | 0.918 | 2,191 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Southern Europe
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 194.
Placed either side on development & human capital
The countries immediately above and below Andorra in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Andorra is ahead of the world, and behind
14 more statistics filed under development & human capital, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median9
Statistics on which Andorra does better than the middle country measured.
Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median 74.6384.0474.63▼ Worsened since 2013
Andorra: 84.04 · world median 74.63 · Years a newborn would live at current death rates. UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 54.46 to 86.37; higher is better.
Position 7th of 222 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 2024 · world median 14.542.50714.54▲ Improved since 2014
Andorra: 2.507 · world median 14.54 · Deaths before age five (per 1,000 live births). UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1.26 to 115.65; lower is better.
Position 189th of 200 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
GDP per Capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 17,26567,99317,265No real change since 2015
Andorra: 67,993 · world median 17,265 · GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1,067 to 139,593; higher is better.
Position 15th of 185 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Completeness of Birth RegistrationUNICEF · 2025 · world median 98.410098.4No earlier reading
Andorra: 100 · world median 98.4 · Children under 5 whose birth is registered (%). UNICEF, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.7 to 100; higher is better.
Coefficient of Human InequalityUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 17.058.21817.05▲ Improved since 2016
Andorra: 8.218 · world median 17.05 · Coefficient of Human Inequality (%). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 4.865 to 43.08; lower is better.
Position 144th of 169 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 0.6090.8370.609▲ Improved since 2016
Andorra: 0.837 · world median 0.609 · IHDI (0–1). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.226 to 0.923; higher is better.
Position 26th of 169 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Social Protection CoverageILO · 2025 · world median 52.186.752.1No earlier reading
Andorra: 86.7 · world median 52.1 · Population covered by at least one social protection benefit (%). International Labour Organization (ILO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 100; higher is better.
Mean Years of SchoolingUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 9.93311.619.933▲ Improved since 2013
Andorra: 11.61 · world median 9.933 · Mean years of schooling (adults 25+). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 1.412 to 14.3; higher is better.
Position 51st of 193 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Expected Years of SchoolingUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 13.3414.5413.34▲ Improved since 2013
Andorra: 14.54 · world median 13.34 · Expected years of schooling. UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 5.635 to 21.69; higher is better.
Position 75th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median2
Statistics on which Andorra does worse than the middle country measured.
Statistical Performance IndicatorsWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 69.349.8769.3▲ Improved since 2022
Andorra: 49.87 · world median 69.3 · SPI overall score (0–100). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 27.12 to 94.14; higher is better.
Position 165th of 188 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Organic Agricultural AreaFAO · 2024 · world median 0.7250.010.725▼ Worsened since 2014
Andorra: 0.01 · world median 0.725 · Organic share of agricultural land (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 86.38; higher is better.
Position 143rd of 150 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Level with the median, or no median to compare1
Access to ElectricityWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 100100100▼ Worsened since 2014
Andorra: 100 · world median 100 · Population with electricity access (%). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 5.4 to 100; higher is better.
No better end2
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Arable Land per PersonFAO · 2023 · world median 0.1090.0090.109No real change since 2013
Andorra: 0.009 · world median 0.109 · Arable land (hectares per person). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 1.459.
Position 188th of 206 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2025 · world median 6.5720.4846.572Moved since 2015
Andorra: 0.484 · world median 6.572 · Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.025 to 47.59.
Position 153rd of 158 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No current reading for Andorra
Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Agricultural Irrigated Land, Agriculture Orientation Index (last 2023), Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Cereal Yield, Child Marriage, Children with Functional Difficulties, Cost of Sending Remittances, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Crop Production Index, Dietary Energy Supply, Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, Food Production Index, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, Gini Index, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, Global Report on Food Crises, GNI per Capita (PPP) (last 2021), Household Consumption, Human Capital Index, Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Land Under Cereal Production, Livestock Production Index, Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) (last 2024), Net Official Development Assistance Received, Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity, Prevalence of Undernourishment, Prosperity Gap, Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, Violent Discipline of Children and Water Withdrawal by Sector. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Development & Human Capital among Andorra’s 6 topics
Development & Human Capital is Andorra’s 4th best-placed topic of 6. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Health & Wellbeing3rd of 2012/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties26th of 1982/3 keys
- Risk & Resilience29th of 1912/3 keys
- Development & Human Capital32nd of 1942/3 keys
- Governance & Institutions100th of 1933/5 keys
- Education & Knowledge120th of 1822/4 keys
No standing on Economy & Innovation, Work & Labour, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Peace & Security, Mobility & Connectivity: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on development & human capital
The three countries placed highest of 194, and the leaders Andorra can most readily be measured against.
1
United Arab EmiratesWestern Asia
1st of 194 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
BelgiumWestern Europe
2nd of 194 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Gf uip · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
GermanyWestern Europe
3rd of 194 · 3 of 3 keys
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Europe
Belgium2nd3/3 keysHighest in Southern Europe
Slovenia8th3/3 keysThis page
Andorra32nd2/3 keys
Positions out of 194 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis
Charts and analysis about Andorra and development & human capital
On development & human capital
Global Hunger Index 2025: Countries with the Most Alarming Hunger Crisis
Thirteen countries scored across four editions — 2000, 2008, 2016 and 2025 — and five the report could not score at all. DR Congo and South Sudan share 121st place on 37.5.
On development & human capital
India vs Pakistan 2025: Comparison of Hunger Index, Happiness, HDI, Rule of Law, Literacy & GDP
India and Pakistan on six published measures: hunger, happiness, human development, rule of law, literacy and GDP per capita. India is the better placed on five of them; Pakistan on one.
08Questions
Andorra on development & human capital: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Andorra rank on development & human capital?
Andorra is placed 32nd of 194 countries on Development & Human Capital in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 3 key statistics (Maternal Mortality Ratio and Human Development Index). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Maternal Mortality Ratio figure for Andorra?
10.63 in 2023 (maternal deaths per 100,000 live births), according to UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG). The world median in the same edition was 46.65.
What is the latest Human Development Index figure for Andorra?
0.913 in 2023 (hDI score (0–1)), according to UNDP Human Development Report Office. The world median in the same edition was 0.762.
How does Andorra compare with France on development & human capital?
France is placed 17th of 194, and Andorra 32nd. Maternal Mortality Ratio: France 7.3, Andorra 10.63; Human Development Index: France 0.92, Andorra 0.913.
How have Andorra’s development & human capital figures changed?
Maternal Mortality Ratio fell from 14.02 in 2000 to 10.63 in 2023; Human Development Index rose from 0.825 in 2000 to 0.913 in 2023.
Which development & human capital statistics are missing for Andorra?
No current reading is published for Andorra on Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Agricultural Irrigated Land, Agriculture Orientation Index, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Cereal Yield, Child Marriage, Children with Functional Difficulties, Cost of Sending Remittances, Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, Crop Production Index, Dietary Energy Supply, Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months, Food Production Index, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, Gini Index, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, Global Report on Food Crises, GNI per Capita (PPP), Household Consumption, Human Capital Index, Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Land Under Cereal Production, Livestock Production Index, Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), Net Official Development Assistance Received, Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity, Prevalence of Undernourishment, Prosperity Gap, Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five, Violent Discipline of Children and Water Withdrawal by Sector. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
Explore further
Andorra, topic by topic
Nearby, on development & human capital
The key statistics, for every country
10Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
Poverty lines, inequality and aid received are published here as context rather than as keys, often because they cover fewer countries or are measured too rarely. Development is also not the same as economic size or growth, which belong to Economy & Innovation.
How the Development & Human Capital standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 3 indicators on this topic are keys and 49 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. All of them describe 2023.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 3 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 194 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 3.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- Maternal Mortality Ratio — UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG), CC BY 3.0 IGO
- Human Development Index — UNDP Human Development Report Office, CC BY 3.0 IGO
- Cereal Yield — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
The other 14 statistics on this page come from 7 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Andorra’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Andorra (banner) — Tiia Monto derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- United Arab Emirates — Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Belgium — Gf uip, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Germany — dronepicr, CC BY 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Andorra: Development & Human Capital — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/andorra/development