List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index

The following tables covers the list of Latin American countries by Human Development Index as released by the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for regions worldwide.

Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high (for developed countries), high and medium (for developing countries) and low (for least developing countries).

Human Development Index

The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Latin America as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released in 2020).[1] Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in Table 2 of the Statistical Annex of the Human Development Report. The HDI rankings and values in the 2020 Human Development Report cannot therefore be compared directly to HDI rankings and values published in previous Human Development Reports.

Rank Country Human Development Index (HDI)
In Region World HDI Value Change in HDI value 2018–19*
2019 2018
Very High Human Development
1 43  Chile 0.851 0.847 0.004
2 46  Argentina 0.845 0.830 0.015
3 55  Uruguay 0.817 0.808 0.009
4 57  Panama 0.815 0.795 0.020
5 62  Costa Rica 0.810 0.794 0.016
High Human Development
6 70  Cuba 0.783 0.778 0.005
7 74  Mexico 0.779 0.767 0.012
8 79  Peru 0.777 0.759 0.018
9 83  Colombia 0.767 0.761 0.006
10 84  Brazil 0.765 0.761 0.004
11 86  Ecuador 0.759 0.758 0.001
12 88  Dominican Republic 0.756 0.745 0.011
13 103  Paraguay 0.728 0.724 0.004
14 107  Bolivia 0.718 0.703 0.015
15 110  Belize 0.716 0.720 0.004
16 113  Venezuela 0.711 0.726 0.015
Medium Human Development
17 124  El Salvador 0.673 0.667 0.006
18 127  Guatemala 0.663 0.651 0.012
19 128  Nicaragua 0.660 0.651 0.009
20 132  Honduras 0.634 0.623 0.011
Low Human Development
21 170  Haiti 0.510 0.503 0.007
*Change in HDI value rounded to three decimals

See also

References
  1. "2020 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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