HDI• The index was developed by Pakistan
economist Dr. Mahboob ul Haq, Sir Richard Jolly with the help of Gustav Renis of Yale University and Lord Meghnad Desai of London School of Economics.
• Used by UNDP in its human development reports since then
• The HDI uses measures of life expectancy, literacy, education attainment, and GDP per capita for countries world wide
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• The basic use of HDI is a composite measure of a country’s development (life expectancy, education and living standard)
• Life expectancy at birth, a measure of pop health and longevity.
• Education and knowledge as measured by adult literacy rate with 2/3 weighting and the combined primary, secondary and tertiary ratio with 1/3 ratio
• Living standard as measured by GDP per capita at purchasing power parity in US$
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EI
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Formula• In general to transform a raw variable say (x) into
a unit free index b/w 0-1 (which allows indices to be added together) the following formula is used:
• X index = x - max (x)/ max (x)-min (x)• Min(x), Max (x), are minimum and maximum
values x can attain• The HDI then represent the average of the
following three indices:
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Milanregmi/hdi-17271295
Formula for HDI• Life expectancy index = LE-20/90-20
• Education index = 2/3 x ALR + 1/3 General
• Adult literacy rate = ALR-0/100-0
• Gross enrollment index (GEI) = CGER-0/100-0
• GDP index = log (GDP pc)- log(100)/Log (40000)-log (100)
• HDI = Education index + health index + economic index/3
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