What Is the Human Development Index?
Health by life expectancy, knowledge by years of schooling and living standard by income per person.
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1.Which three things does the HDI combine?
Health by life expectancy, knowledge by years of schooling and living standard by income per person.
2.Why was the HDI built beside GDP?
Two countries with the same income can differ much in life expectancy and schooling, which the HDI is built to notice.
3.What are the goalposts for life expectancy in the HDI?
For income the range runs from 100 to 75,000 dollars per person, and income counts less and less as it grows.
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Sources (3)
- UNDP Human Development Report 2025, Technical notes (HDI-Berechnung)
- UNDP: Human Development Index (Data Center)
- Eigene Berechnung (Nachrechnung UNDP-Beispiel
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