List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, a developing or an under-developed country, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high, high, medium, and low human development. Currently, no Oceanian country falls into the low human development category while Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen are the only Asian countries which fall into this category.

The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya Sen.

The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Asia and the Pacific as included in a Development report of united nations development programme released on 13 March 2024 and based on data collected in 2022.

Countries with contiguous boundaries that are partially (but not entirely) located in Asia are shown here in italics, but HDI figures are given for the whole country. Macau, North Korea, and Taiwan in Asia, are not ranked as they are not included in the latest report by the United Nations Development Programme.

See also

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP)
• List of Asian countries by GDP
• List of Asian countries by population
• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of countries by Human Development Index by region
• List of countries by industrial production growth rate
• List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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References

1. List of countries by Human Development Index
2. List of countries by Human Development Index by region
3. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Oceania
4. List of subnational entities with the highest and lowest Human Development Index
5. List of Central European countries by development indexes
6. List of countries by income equality
7. List of countries by life expectancy
8. Corruption Perceptions Index
9. List of countries by GDP (PPP)
10. Developed country
11. List of counties of Albania by Human Development Index
12. Southeast Asia
13. Least developed countries
14. List of Indian states by life expectancy at birth
15. List of countries by number of millionaires
16. Oceania
17. Global Hunger Index
18. Index of human sexuality articles
19. Asia
20. Australia (continent)