List Of Countries By Planetary Pressures–adjusted Human Development Index
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This is a list of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted human development index (PHDI), as published by the
UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...
in its 2020
Human Development Report The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The first HDR was launched in 1990 by the Pakistani economist ...
. The index captures the HDI of a country adjusted for ecological and environmental factors like
carbon dioxide emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and lar ...
per person and material footprint. According to the PHDI, "The PHDI discounts the HDI for pressures on the planet to reflect a concern for intergenerational inequality, similar to the
inequality-adjusted HDI This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2022 Human Development Report. According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when in ...
adjustment which is motivated by a concern for intragenerational inequality."


Methodology

The index captures the HDI of a country, after adjusting for its
carbon dioxide emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and lar ...
per person and material footprint per person. Without any carbon emissions and material footprint, the HDI and PHDI would be equal; the greater these factors are, the greater the difference between the two.


List

The table below ranks countries according to their
planetary pressures Planetary boundaries is a concept highlighting human-caused perturbations of Earth systems making them relevant in a way not accommodated by the environmental boundaries separating the three ages within the Holocene epoch. Crossing a planetary ...
–adjusted human development index (PHDI). Data is based on 2019 estimates.


2019 planetary pressures–adjusted HDI (PHDI) (2020 report)


See also

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List of countries by Human Development Index The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 191 nations in the annual Human Development Report. The index considers the health, education and income in a given country to provide a measure ...
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List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP in its 2022 Human Development Report. According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as ...


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Human Development Reports
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