List of European countries by Human Development Index
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The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent
standard of living Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available, generally applied to a society or location, rather than to an individual. Standard of living is relevant because it is considered to contribute to an individual's quality ...
. It is a standard means of measuring well-being. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped 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, all European countries fall into the very high or high human development category.


List

The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Europe as included in a United Nations Development Programme's
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 ...
(released in 2020). Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in Table 2 of the Statistical Annex of the Human Development Report. Countries that are not entirely located in Europe are shown here in italics, but HDI figures are given for the whole country. Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City are not ranked as they are not included in the latest report by the United Nations Development Programme. Kosovo is also not included.


Map

This is the map of the list of European countries by the Human Development Index for the year 2021. The colour indicators are as follows: High Human Development and Very High Human Development.


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