Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
34 years, 1990–2023 · 156 countries
The Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI is UNDP’s answer to “development at whose expense”: the Human Development Index discounted for a country’s carbon emissions and material footprint. It is the one measure here that systematically pushes wealthy, high-emitting countries down.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2023, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI · the file
- Newest
- Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2023
- Held
- 34 years · 4,955 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0134 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2023Newest | 156 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2022 | 155 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2021 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2020 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2019 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2018 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2017 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2016 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2015 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2014 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2013 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2012 | 155 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 34 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: planetary-pressures-hdi-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 | — | 156 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 156 | 0 | |
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI (0–1)phdi_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: PHDI (0–1). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.276 Qatar0.827 United Kingdommiddle 0.678 | 131 | 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.
03156 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 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 46 |
| Americas | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Europe | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 156 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
Who joined and who left
+ Central African Republic
+ Somalia
+ Sudan
+ South Sudan
+ Bhutan
+ Serbia
+ Burkina Faso
+ Eritrea
+ Lebanon
+ Moldova
+ TurkmenistanNot in this dataset · 69 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
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Barbados
Belarus
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cabo Verde
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Comoros
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Eswatini
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Kosovo
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Montenegro
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Seychelles
Sint Maarten
Solomon IslandsSomaliland
Suriname
Taiwan
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
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
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as planetary-pressures-hdi-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 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 August 29, 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, Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/planetary-pressures-hdi
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
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI: questions and answers
What is the Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI?
The Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI is UNDP’s answer to “development at whose expense”: the Human Development Index discounted for a country’s carbon emissions and material footprint. It is the one measure here that systematically pushes wealthy, high-emitting countries down.
Which years of the Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI can I download?
All 34, from 1990 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.