List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI


This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted human development index, as published by the UNDP in its 2019 Human Development Report. According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for," whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development."

Methodology

The index captures the HDI of the average person in society, which is less than the aggregate HDI when there is inequality in the distribution of health, education and income. Under perfect equality, the HDI and IHDI are equal; the greater the difference between the two, the greater the inequality.
The IHDI, estimated for 151 countries, captures the losses in human development due to inequality in health, education and income. Losses in all three dimensions vary across countries, ranging from just a few percent up to over 40%. Overall loss takes into account all three dimensions.

List

The table below ranks countries according to their inequality-adjusted human development index. Data is based on 2018 estimates.

2018 inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) (2019 report)