[ENGLISH] Human Development Index (HDI)

The HDI 🔗 (level) of European countries. (A Dutch version of this page is available here)

For the period 1990 until 2017. The selected countries participate in the EU and/or Schengen and/or the Euro. Select the year that you want to see and filter on the range of HDI values. The legend automatically adapts itself to the selected year and the filtered HDI values. An HDI value is a value between 0 and 1 (higher is better).

Data source:

  • HDI, Global Data Lab, file: “SHDI-2.1.csv”, version 2.1, terms, the HDI for Hungary in the year 1992 is not available in this data, for this case the average of the national average of the years 1991 and 1993 has been applied
  • Geo, Global Data Lab, file: “GDL-SHDI-SHP-2.shp”, snapshot: October 15 2018, terms
  • HDI (specific countries), United Nations Development Programme, file: “Human Development Index (HDI).csv”, snapshot: October 15 2018, used for HDI data for the following countries: Cyprus / Iceland / Luxembourg, License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO