Data for 1990

Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990

Name: Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990
Creator: UNDP Human Development Report Office
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1990, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990 covers 117 countries. Denmark is highest, at 0.700; Niger is lowest, at 0.210. The middle country reads 0.559.

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Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI · Data for 1990

HighestDenmark

0.700

LowestNiger

0.210

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

117countries
1measure
1990the year it describes
96distinct values3 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990, as published. UNDP Human Development Report Office ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
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1	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.700
2	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.696
3	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.695
4	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	0.688
=5	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0.675
=5	Chile`CHL`South America	0.675
=7	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.673
=7	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.673
9	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.671
10	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.670
=11	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.669
=11	Uruguay`URY`South America	0.669
13	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.668
14	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.659
15	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.654
16	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.653
17	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.644
18	Panama`PAN`Central America	0.643
=19	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	0.641
=19	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.641
=19	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.641
22	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.640
23	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.638
24	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.635
25	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.634
=26	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.632
=26	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.632
=28	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.629
=28	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.629
=30	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0.626
=30	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.626
=30	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.626
33	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.625
34	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	0.620
35	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.619
36	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.617
=37	Ecuador`ECU`South America	0.616
=37	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	0.616
39	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.615
40	Venezuela`VEN`South America	0.610
41	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	0.607
42	Peru`PER`South America	0.606
43	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.605
44	United States`USA`Northern America	0.602
45	Brazil`BRA`South America	0.592
46	Colombia`COL`South America	0.591
47	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.589
48	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.587
49	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	0.578
=50	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.577
=50	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.577
52	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.574
53	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.567
=54	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.565
=54	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.565
=56	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.562
=56	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.562
58	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.560
59	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	0.559
60	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.558
=61	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.555
=61	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.555
=63	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.552
=63	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	0.552
65	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.544
66	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.527
67	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.519
68	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	0.515
69	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.514
70	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.511
71	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	0.509
72	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.507
73	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.501
74	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	0.499
75	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.495
76	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.493
=77	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	0.486
=77	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.486
79	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	0.475
80	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.470
81	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.456
82	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.450
83	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	0.439
84	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.437
85	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.436
86	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.423
87	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.422
88	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.418
=89	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	0.413
=89	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.413
91	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	0.401
92	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.400
93	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.399
94	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.393
=95	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.389
=95	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	0.389
97	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	0.383
=98	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	0.379
=98	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	0.379
100	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	0.378
=101	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.373
=101	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	0.373
103	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	0.360
104	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.350
105	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.344
106	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0.341
=107	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	0.335
=107	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	0.335
109	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0.324
110	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	0.310
111	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	0.302
112	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.287
113	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	0.281
114	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	0.276
115	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	0.242
116	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	0.237
117	Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.210

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Denmark0.700
2Japan0.696
3Norway0.695
4Sweden0.688
5Bahamasshared0.675

Lowest

117Niger0.210
116Mali0.237
115Mozambique0.242
114Guinea0.276
113Afghanistan0.281

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.559. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

One year of the 2025 release
Every year in this series comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1990.
96 distinct values among 117
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.641. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 117 countries has every column.

04The files

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UNDP Human Development Report Office (1990). Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/planetary-pressures-hdi/1990

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