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International Human Development Indicators
The human development data utilized in the
preparation of the Human Development Index (HDI) and other
composite indices featured in the Human Development Report are provided by a variety of public
international sources and represent the best and most current statistics available for those
indicators at the time of the preparation of this annual report. Calculations
of HDI values and country rankings are the sole responsibility of the Human
Development Report Office. The 2013 Human Development
Report, an editorially
independent publication commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, was published
in print and on line on March 14, 2013.List of countries by Human Development Index
World map by
quartiles of Human Development Index in 2013.
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The first Human Development Report introduced
a new way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy,
educational attainment and income into a composite human development index, the
HDI. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which
was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development.
The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension, called goalposts, and
then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts, expressed
as a value between 0 and 1.