Countries With the Highest Inequality-adjusted HDI

Every country with a figure for inequality-adjusted hdi, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Iceland (0.923), Denmark (0.909) and Norway (0.909). The middle country of the 170 has 0.609.

What this measures

Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, in index, 0 to 1. Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office. For this measure, higher is better.

The HDI marked down for how unequally each of its three parts is spread within the country. The gap between this and the HDI is what inequality costs, and that is the number worth reading. The level itself is the HDI again, with its parts flagged the same way.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2015–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on inequality-adjusted hdi

• Countries With the Lowest Inequality-adjusted HDI
• Inequality-adjusted HDI by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.