Independent rankings built from public data — every figure traceable to the body that published it.
PHDI (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 — 4,955 rows in total, and 156 countries in the newest.
34 reference years (1990–2023), 117 to 156 countries. The HDI discounted for a country's carbon emissions and material footprint — UNDP's answer to the question of development at whose expense. It is the one measure on this site that systematically pushes wealthy, high-emitting countries DOWN, which makes it a useful corrective to read beside the HDI rather than a duplicate of it. ⚠ Not 34 published editions: the 2025 Human Development Report recalculates every year on one methodology. UNDP publishes no rank for the PHDI, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.
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. Human Development Report. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
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