Independent rankings built from public data — every figure traceable to the body that published it.
HDI score (0–1)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNDP Human Development Report Office
We hold 34 editions of this indicator, from 1990 to 2023 — 5,940 rows in total, and 193 countries in the newest.
34 data years (1990–2023), imported from the 2025 Human Development Report's own composite-indices time series — one file covering every year at once, like World Happiness and Rule of Law. ⚠ This is ONE report's self-consistent recalculation of 1990–2023, not 34 separate originally-published editions: UNDP restates prior years on its current methodology each time it publishes, so these numbers are not what an earlier report actually printed for, say, 2005. UNDP states an official rank only for the latest year (2023); every other year's rank is derived by ordering the score, and that derivation was verified to reproduce UNDP's own 2023 ranking exactly before being trusted for the rest.
The year a report is NAMED for and the year its numbers DESCRIBE are different facts, and they disagree constantly — so both are listed. Every row opens the full country table for that edition, sortable by any column.
Published by UNDP Human Development Report Office
Cite as: UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). Human Development Report. New York: UNDP.
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