{"id":3167,"date":"2013-04-05T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:02:17","slug":"human-development-index-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Development Index 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IDH-2012-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IDH-2012-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IDH-2012-map.png 924w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IDH-2012-map-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IDH-2012-map-447x300.png 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hdr.undp.org\/en\/statistics\/hdi\/\">Human Development Index<\/a> (HDI) is a composite measure that includes three indicators: life expectancy at birth, level of education attained, and income. The HDI is an alternative to the purely economical GDP, that quantifies economic growth only. Thus, the HDI provide a way to gauge the development of a country. The HDI for 2012\u00a0includes 187 countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The HDI ranks countries according to their degree of development using a scale from 0 to1, 0 being the least developed and 1 being the most developed country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the HDI map above, published by the Brazilian media site <a href=\"http:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/infograficos\/idh-2012\/\">Globo.com<\/a> we find that Norway has a score of 0.955, ranking number one as the most developed country (color green). Norway is followed by Australia, the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the other end of the spectrum we find the least developed nations (color purple), including the majority of African nations, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite measure that includes three indicators: life expectancy at birth, level of education attained, and income. The HDI is an alternative to the purely economical GDP, that quantifies economic growth only. Thus, the HDI provide a way to gauge the development of a country. The HDI for 2012\u00a0includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Human Development Index 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/human-development-index-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,15,165,25,49,29,77,99,494,32,37,19,527,14,30],"tags":[382,1374,526,127,374,859,858,857,861,632,672,1353,348,1364,860,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}