Human Development Index

• HDI is a composite measure of development, expressed as a figure between 0 and 1. It is made up of:

  • GNI per capita
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Average & expected years of schooling
• HDI is a better method of measuring development than GDP because it takes into account 3 dimensions of development.

  Economic measures alone can be misleading as a country may be wealthy but have poor social development.