World map representing the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index categories (based on 2021 data, published in 2022).

0.800–1.000 (very high)   0.700–0.799 (high)   0.550–0.699 (medium)

0.350–0.549 (low)   Data unavailable

World map showing more detailed breakdown of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (based on 2019 data, published in 2020).

0.850–0.899   0.800–0.849   0.750–0.799   0.700–0.749   0.650–0.699

0.600–0.649   0.550–0.599   0.500–0.549   0.450–0.499   0.400–0.449

0.350–0.399   0.300–0.349   0.250–0.299   0.200–0.249   Data unavailable

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 inequality is accounted for," whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or the maximum IHDI that could be achieved if there were no inequality)."^[1][2]

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 the world and 150 specific 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 (Czech Republic, Slovenia) up to over 40% (Comoros, Central African Republic). Overall loss takes into account all three dimensions.^[3]

List

The table below ranks countries according to their inequality-adjusted human development index (IHDI). Data is based on 2021 estimates.

2021 inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) (2022 report)

Table of countries by IHDI

Rank	Country	2021 estimates (2022 report)[4][5]
		IHDI	HDI	Overall loss (%) due to inequality	Change since 2012
1	Iceland	0.915	0.959	4.6	0.048
2	Norway	0.908	0.961	5.5	0.012
3	Denmark	0.898	0.948	5.3	0.034
4	Switzerland	0.894	0.962	7.1	0.000[lower-alpha 1]
5	Finland	0.890	0.940	5.3	0.025
6	Ireland	0.886	0.945	6.2	0.046
7	Sweden	0.885	0.947	6.5	0.034
8	Germany	0.883	0.942	6.3	0.014
9	Netherlands	0.878	0.941	6.7	0.011
10	Slovenia	0.878	0.918	4.4	0.036
11	Australia	0.876	0.951	7.9	0.022
12	Belgium	0.874	0.937	6.7	0.038
13	New Zealand	0.865	0.937	7.7	0.017
14	Canada	0.860	0.936	8.1	0.020
15	Austria	0.851	0.916	7.1	0.015
16	Czech Republic	0.850	0.889	4.4	0.006
16	Japan	0.850	0.925	8.1	0.018
16	Luxembourg	0.850	0.930	8.6	0.015[lower-alpha 1]
16	United Kingdom	0.850	0.929	8.5	0.023
20	Malta	0.849	0.918	7.5	0.059
21	South Korea	0.838	0.925	9.4	0.034
22	Estonia	0.829	0.890	6.9	0.032
23	Hong Kong	0.828	0.952	13.0	0.037
24	France	0.825	0.903	8.6	0.020
25	Cyprus	0.819	0.896	8.6	0.011
25	United States	0.819	0.921	11.1	0.049
27	Singapore	0.817	0.939	13.0	0.023
28	Poland	0.816	0.876	6.8	0.045
29	Israel	0.815	0.919	11.3	0.028
30	Slovakia	0.803	0.848	5.3	0.010
31	Lithuania	0.800	0.875	8.6	0.032
32	Croatia	0.797	0.858	7.1	0.039
33	Hungary	0.792	0.846	6.4	0.045
33	Latvia	0.792	0.863	8.2	0.019
35	Greece	0.791	0.887	10.8	0.009
35	Italy	0.791	0.895	11.6	0.031
37	Spain	0.788	0.905	12.9	0.040[lower-alpha 2]
38	Portugal	0.773	0.866	10.7	0.046[lower-alpha 2]
39	Belarus	0.765	0.808	5.3	0.011
40	Montenegro	0.756	0.832	9.1	0.010[lower-alpha 1]
41	Kazakhstan	0.755	0.811	6.9	0.049
42	Russia	0.751	0.822	8.6	0.029
43	Romania	0.733	0.821	10.7	0.009
44	Ukraine	0.726	0.773	6.1	0.004
45	Chile	0.722	0.855	15.6	0.044
46	Argentina	0.720	0.842	14.5	0.001
46	Serbia	0.720	0.802	10.2	0.038[lower-alpha 2]
48	Turkey	0.717	0.838	14.4	0.071
49	Moldova	0.711	0.767	7.3	0.034
50	Albania	0.710	0.796	10.8	0.019
50	Uruguay	0.710	0.809	12.2	0.014
52	Oman	0.708	0.816	13.2	0.065
53	Georgia	0.706	0.802	12.0	0.055
54	Bulgaria	0.701	0.795	11.8	0.016
55	Armenia	0.688	0.759	9.4	0.004
56	Iran	0.686	0.774	11.4	0.064[lower-alpha 1]
56	North Macedonia	0.686	0.770	10.9	0.009[lower-alpha 1]
56	Thailand	0.686	0.800	14.3	0.064
59	Azerbaijan	0.685	0.745	8.1	0.026
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.677	0.780	13.2	0.048
61	Sri Lanka	0.676	0.782	13.6	0.015[lower-alpha 3]
62	Mauritius	0.666	0.802	17.0	0.020
62	Tonga	0.666	0.745	10.6	N/A
64	Costa Rica	0.664	0.809	17.9	0.026
65	Seychelles	0.661	0.785	15.8	N/A
66	Barbados	0.657	0.790	16.8	0.006
67	China	0.651	0.768	15.2	0.047
68	Mongolia	0.644	0.739	12.9	0.012[lower-alpha 2]
69	Panama	0.640	0.805	20.5	0.035
70	Peru	0.635	0.762	16.7	0.039
71	Kyrgyzstan	0.627	0.692	9.4	0.038
72	Mexico	0.621	0.758	18.1	0.023
73	Turkmenistan	0.619	0.745	16.9	0.024[lower-alpha 4]
74	Dominican Republic	0.618	0.767	19.4	0.065
75	Jordan	0.617	0.720	14.3	0.014
76	Samoa	0.613	0.707	13.3	N/A
77	Ecuador	0.604	0.740	18.4	0.007
78	Vietnam	0.602	0.703	14.4	0.049
79	Tajikistan	0.599	0.685	12.6	0.040
80	Algeria	0.598	0.745	19.7	0.017[lower-alpha 1]
81	Maldives	0.594	0.747	20.5	0.060
82	Venezuela	0.592	0.691	14.3	0.055
83	Guyana	0.591	0.714	17.2	0.043
83	Jamaica	0.591	0.709	16.6	0.002
—	World	0.590	0.732	19.4	0.028
85	Colombia	0.589	0.752	21.7	0.030
86	Tunisia	0.588	0.731	19.6	0.023
87	Indonesia	0.585	0.705	17.0	0.029
88	Palestine	0.584	0.715	18.3	0.014
89	Paraguay	0.582	0.717	18.8	0.030
90	Brazil	0.576	0.754	23.6	0.027
91	Philippines	0.574	0.699	17.9	0.028
92	Saint Lucia	0.559	0.715	21.8	0.012
93	Gabon	0.554	0.706	21.5	0.031
93	Iraq	0.554	0.686	19.2	0.038
95	Bolivia	0.549	0.692	20.7	0.051
96	El Salvador	0.548	0.675	18.8	0.029
97	Tuvalu	0.541	0.641	15.6	0.025
98	Belize	0.535	0.683	21.7	0.017
99	Suriname	0.532	0.730	27.1	0.023
100	Egypt	0.519	0.731	29.0	0.041
101	Kiribati	0.516	0.624	17.3	0.038
101	Nicaragua	0.516	0.667	22.6	0.044[lower-alpha 4]
103	Morocco	0.504	0.683	26.2	0.080[lower-alpha 5]
104	Bangladesh	0.503	0.661	23.9	0.101
104	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.503	0.618	18.6	0.012[lower-alpha 2]
106	Cambodia	0.479	0.593	19.2	0.043
106	Honduras	0.479	0.621	22.9	0.053
108	India	0.475	0.633	25.0	0.052
109	Bhutan	0.471	0.666	29.3	0.006
109	South Africa	0.471	0.713	33.9	0.048
111	Guatemala	0.460	0.627	26.6	0.048
112	Laos	0.459	0.607	24.4	0.043
113	Ghana	0.458	0.632	27.5	0.040
113	Zimbabwe	0.458	0.593	22.8	0.058
115	Nepal	0.449	0.602	25.4	0.038
116	Timor-Leste	0.440	0.607	27.5	0.005
117	Republic of the Congo	0.432	0.571	24.3	0.006
118	Kenya	0.426	0.575	25.9	0.035
119	Eswatini	0.424	0.597	29.0	0.058
120	Tanzania	0.418	0.549	23.9	0.047
121	Angola	0.407	0.586	30.5	0.012[lower-alpha 6]
122	Namibia	0.402	0.615	34.6	0.067
122	Rwanda	0.402	0.534	24.7	0.038
124	Papua New Guinea	0.397	0.558	28.9	0.011[lower-alpha 3]
125	Uganda	0.396	0.525	24.6	0.027
126	Cameroon	0.393	0.576	31.8	0.026
127	Zambia	0.390	0.565	31.0	0.021
128	Mauritania	0.389	0.556	30.0	0.035
129	Pakistan	0.380	0.544	30.1	0.026
130	Malawi	0.377	0.512	26.4	0.044
131	Lesotho	0.372	0.514	27.6	0.039
131	Togo	0.372	0.539	31.0	0.061
133	Madagascar	0.367	0.501	26.7	0.036
134	Ethiopia	0.363	0.498	27.1	0.060
135	Côte d'Ivoire	0.358	0.550	34.9	0.055
136	Senegal	0.354	0.511	30.7	0.024
137	Gambia	0.348	0.500	30.4	0.046[lower-alpha 1]
138	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.341	0.479	28.8	0.035
138	Nigeria	0.341	0.535	36.3	0.046
140	Sudan	0.336	0.508	33.9	0.000
141	Benin	0.334	0.525	36.4	0.016
142	Liberia	0.330	0.481	31.4	0.021
143	Haiti	0.327	0.535	38.9	0.015
144	Burkina Faso	0.315	0.449	29.8	0.031
145	Comoros	0.310	0.558	44.4	0.021
146	Sierra Leone	0.309	0.477	35.2	0.033
147	Yemen	0.307	0.455	32.5	0.038
148	Guinea-Bissau	0.306	0.483	36.6	0.017
149	Burundi	0.302	0.426	29.1	0.006
150	Mozambique	0.300	0.446	32.7	0.017
151	Guinea	0.299	0.465	35.7	0.028
152	Niger	0.292	0.400	27.0	0.041
153	Mali	0.291	0.428	32.0	0.019[lower-alpha 1]
154	Chad	0.251	0.394	36.3	0.020
155	South Sudan	0.245	0.385	36.4	0.007
156	Central African Republic	0.240	0.404	40.6	0.017

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index
• List of countries by income equality
• List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent
• Social Progress Index
• Economic inequality
• Median income
• Per capita income
• Poverty
• Social inequality
• Welfare's effect on poverty
• Human Development Report

Notes

References

External links

• Human Development Reports