By looking at each state through the Human Development Index, the U.S. looks more like many nations at all different levels of well-being.
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Switzerland and Norway currently have the world's highest Human Development Index (HDI) values of 0.967 and 0.966 as of 2022. These countries are renowned for having "very high" human development, reflecting strong health, education, and income performance. The United States currently stands 21st globally in the Human Development Index, with a value of approximately 0.927. This places the US behind most Western European nations, several Asian economies (like Hong Kong SAR and Singapore), and countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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HDI: Human Development Index The Human Development Index (commonly abbreviated HDI) is a summary of human development around the world and implies whether a country is developed, still developing, or underdeveloped based on factors such as life expectancy, education, literacy, gross domestic product per capita. The results of the HDI are published in the Human Development Report, which is commissioned by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and is written by scholars, those who study world development and members of the Human Development Report Office of the UNDP. According to the UNDP, human development is “about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. People are the real wealth of nations. Development is thus about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value.” The United Nations has calculated the HDI for its member states since 1975. The first Human Development Report was published in 1990 with leadership from Pakistani economist and finance minister Mahbub ul Haq and Indian Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, Amartya Sen. The main motivation for the Human Development Report itself was a focus on only real income per capita as the basis for a country’s development and prosperity. The UNDP claimed that economic prosperity as shown with real income per capita, was not the only factor in measuring human development because these numbers do not necessarily mean a country’s people as a whole are better off. Thus, the first Human Development Report used the HDI and examined such concepts as health and life expectancy, education, and work and leisure time. Today, the HDI examines three basic dimensions to measure a country’s growth and achievements in human development. The first of these is health for the country’s people. This is measured by life expectancy at birth and those with higher life expectancies rank higher than those with lower life expectancies. The second dimension measured in the HDI is a country’s overall knowledge level as measured by the adult literacy rate combined with the gross enrollment ratios of students in primary school through the university level. The third and final dimension in the HDI is a country’s standard of living. Those with higher standards of living rank higher than those with lower standards of living. This dimension is measured with the gross domestic product per capita in purchasing power parity terms, based on United States dollars. In order to accurately calculate each of these dimensions for the HDI, a separate index is calculated for each of them based on the raw data gathered during studies. The raw data is then put into a formula with minimum and maximum values to create an index. The HDI for each country is then calculated as an average of the three indices which include the life expectancy index, the gross enrollment index and the gross domestic product.
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