Human Development Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: human-development-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

HDI Scoreis built fromLife Expectancy at Birth (years)Expected Years of SchoolingMean Years of SchoolingGNI per Capita (2021 PPP $)

Every column in the newest file of Human Development Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Iceland193South Sudanmiddle 97	159	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	193	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	193	0
HDI Scorehdi_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: HDI score (0–1).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.388South Sudan0.972Icelandmiddle 0.762	159	0
Life Expectancy at Birth (years)life_expectancyPart of the headline	Years a newborn could expect to live if the death rates at the time of its birth held throughout its life.	Number · up to 3 decimals	54.462Nigeria85.706San Marinomiddle 73.490	192	0
Expected Years of Schoolingexpected_years_schoolingPart of the headline	Years of schooling a child starting school can expect to receive if current enrolment rates hold.	Number · up to 9 decimals	5.635South Sudan20.846Greecemiddle 13.336	193	0
Mean Years of Schoolingmean_years_schoolingPart of the headline	Average years of education completed by people aged 25 and older.	Number · up to 9 decimals	1.41229Niger14.29637Germanymiddle 9.93302	191	0
GNI per Capita (2021 PPP $)gni_per_capitaPart of the headline	Gross national income per person, in 2021 PPP dollars so that living standards can be compared across countries.	Number · up to 7 decimals	688South Sudan166,812Liechtensteinmiddle 15,867	193	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 34 years.

Not in this dataset · 32 places this site covers

UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoMacauMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNDP Human Development Report Office

   hdr.undp.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Human Development Index 2023

   HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   34 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as human-development-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/human-development-indexA key for Development & Human Capital in the Country Index.

Imported from the 2025 Human Development Report’s composite-indices time series, one file covering every year at once. These are that report’s restatement of history, not what earlier reports printed at the time.