List of countries by income equality and human development index

This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients, and Human Development Index.

Gini

The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income—and everyone else has no income). Income distribution can vary greatly from wealth distribution in a country (see List of countries by distribution of wealth). Income from black market economic activity is not included and is the subject of current economic research.

HDI

The first human development index was published in 1990 with the goal of being a more comprehensive measure of human development than purely economic measures such as GDP. The index incorporates three dimensions of human development, a long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent living standards. Various indicators are used to quantify how countries perform on each dimension. The indicators used in the 2020 report was life expectancy at birth; expected years of schooling for children; mean years of schooling for adults; and Gross National Income per capita. The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index each with a value between 0 and 1. The geometric mean of the three indexes, the cube root of the product of the indexes, is the human development index. A value above 0.800 is classified as very high, between 0.700 and 0.799 high, 0.550 to 0.699 as medium and anything below 0.550 as low.

The table

= increase = steady = decrease

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Country / Dependency Gini Year HDI Year  Anderia – – – –  Barkadia – – – –  Baydor 43.7 2015 0.802 2020  Cadenza 37.4 2015 0.914 2020  Demitor 32.0 2018 0.651 2018  Dolfikland 32.1 2018 0.947 2018  Faulksnia – – – –  Iconia 24.0 2021 0.901 2020  Kolonia – – – –  Malabar – – – –  Nacija Slavia 24.2 2015 0.918 2020  Nuvastia – – – –  Omniabstracta 30.5 2015 0.936 2020  Serria 29.5 2001 0.954 2018  SMOS 30.5 2015 0.880 2020  Tau Kicari Union – – – –  Verkimlund 0.65 2020 0.709 2020  Yeristan – – – –  Yinshan 46.7 2018 0.761 2019

See also

• List of countries and dependencies by area
• List of countries and dependencies by population
• List of countries and dependencies by population density
• List of countries by income equality and human development index
• List of Internet top-level domains
• List of Kerbin Currencies