Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
Coefficient of Human Inequality
14 years, 2010–2023 · 169 countries
The Coefficient of Human Inequality is the plain average of the inequality in a country’s health, education and income — how unevenly the three building blocks of human development are actually spread, on a 0–100 scale where 0 is perfect equality.
This site holds every year from 2010 to 2023, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Coefficient of Human Inequality · the file
- Newest
- Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2023
- Held
- 14 years · 2,150 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0114 years
Every year
Every year comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2023Newest | 169 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2022 | 169 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2021 | 169 | +2 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2020 | 167 | +1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2019 | 166 | +6 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2018 | 160 | +1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2017 | 159 | +2 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2016 | 157 | +4 −1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2015 | 154 | +5 −1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2014 | 150 | +5 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2013 | 145 | +5 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2012 | 140 | +11 −1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 14 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2011 | 130 | +16 −1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2010 | 115 | — | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: human-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 169 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 169 | 0 | |
Coefficient of Human Inequality (%)coef_ineq_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: Coefficient of Human Inequality (%). | Number · up to 9 decimals | 4.865 Slovenia43.077 Somaliamiddle 17.048 | 169 | 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 worse result.
03170 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 43 | 44 | 45 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Americas | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 38 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Europe | 35 | 36 | 39 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Oceania | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 140 | 145 | 150 | 154 | 157 | 159 | 160 | 166 | 167 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
The newest 12 of 14 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2021
+ Fiji
+ Nauru - 2020
+ Marshall Islands - 2019
+ Benin
+ New Zealand
+ Seychelles
+ Tonga
+ Tuvalu
+ Samoa - 2018
+ Kiribati - 2017
+ Estonia
+ Saint Lucia - 2016
+ Andorra
+ United Arab Emirates
+ Papua New Guinea+ Somalia
− Syria - 2015
+ Angola
+ Botswana
+ Cabo Verde
+ Guatemala
+ Myanmar− Estonia - 2014
+ Comoros
+ Denmark
+ Spain+ Estonia
+ Palau
Not in this dataset · 55 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 Samoa
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahrain
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guyana
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Suriname
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Uzbekistan
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNDP Human Development Report Office
2 · Their file
Coefficient of Human Inequality 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
14 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as human-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 9 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the 2025 Human Development Report, which recalculates every year at once on one current method.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UNDP Human Development Report Office, Coefficient of Human Inequality, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Coefficient of Human Inequality, 2010–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-inequality
The publisher’s own citation: UNDP. Human Development Report. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Coefficient of Human Inequality: questions and answers
What is the Coefficient of Human Inequality?
The Coefficient of Human Inequality is the plain average of the inequality in a country’s health, education and income — how unevenly the three building blocks of human development are actually spread, on a 0–100 scale where 0 is perfect equality.
Which years of the Coefficient of Human Inequality can I download?
All 14, from 2010 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNDP Human Development Report Office rank countries on it?
No. UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNDP Human Development Report Office. The licence text is linked on this page.