We have selected 15 different countries for the analysis of Human Development Index.

The HDI combines three dimensions:

* Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity

* Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross
enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting).
* Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.

We have taken these three indices from the latest Human Development report and formulate HDI by applying following formula:
HDI = (LEI+EI+GDP index)/3
Source of Data: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/

Human Combined gross

development Adult literacy enrolment ratio in GDP per
index rate education capita
Life GDP per capita
(% aged 15 expectancy Education rank minus HDI
value and above) (%) (PPP US$) index index GDP index rank
HDI rank 2007 1999–2007a 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007

VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

2 Australia 0.970 .. 114.2 34,923 0.940 0.993 0.977 20
4 Canada 0.966 .. 99.3 35,812 0.927 0.991 0.982 14
7 Sweden 0.963 .. 94.3 36,712 0.930 0.974 0.986 9
13 United States 0.956 .. 92.4 45,592 0.902 0.968 1.000 -4

HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

44 Chile 0.878 96.5 82.5 13,880 0.891 0.919 0.823 15
49 Argentina 0.866 97.6 88.6 13,238 0.836 0.946 0.815 13
66 Malaysia 0.829 91.9 71.5 13,518 0.819 0.851 0.819 -5
75 Brazil 0.813 90.0 87.2 9,567 0.787 0.891 0.761 4

MEDIUM HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

88 Iran (Islamic Re 0.782 82.3 73.2 10,955 0.769 0.793 0.784 -17
92 China 0.772 93.3 68.7 5,383 0.799 0.851 0.665 10
134 India 0.612 66.0 61.0 2,753 0.639 0.643 0.553 -6
141 Pakistan 0.572 54.2 39.3 2,496 0.687 0.492 0.537 -9

LOW HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

169 Liberia 0.442 55.5 57.6 362 0.548 0.562 0.215 10
178 Mali 0.371 26.2 46.9 1,083 0.385 0.331 0.398 -16
179 Central African 0.369 48.6 28.6 713 0.361 0.419 0.328 -5

In the last column a positive figure indicates that the HDI rank is higher than the GDP per capita (PPP US$) rank; a negative figure, the opposite. This also indicates
that countries like US, Malaysia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Mali and Central Africa have high GDP per capita than HDI which shows the spendings by general public in
these countries are less.
Human development index trends
Source: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/

Change in
Average
rank
growth HDI
Rank %
HDI rank 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2006 2007 2006 2006–2007 (1980–2007)
VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
2 Australia 0.871 0.883 0.902 0.938 0.954 0.967 0.968 0.97 2 0 0.40
4 Canada 0.89 0.913 0.933 0.938 0.948 0.963 0.965 0.966 4 0 0.31
7 Sweden 0.885 0.895 0.906 0.937 0.954 0.96 0.961 0.963 6 -1 0.32
13 United States 0.894 0.909 0.923 0.939 0.949 0.955 0.955 0.956 12 -1 0.25
HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
44 Chile 0.748 0.762 0.795 0.822 0.849 0.872 0.874 0.878 43 -1 0.59
49 Argentina 0.793 0.797 0.804 0.824 .. 0.855 0.861 0.866 47 -2 0.33
66 Malaysia 0.666 0.689 0.737 0.767 0.797 0.821 0.825 0.829 66 0 0.81
75 Brazil 0.685 0.694 0.71 0.734 0.79 0.805 0.808 0.813 75 0 0.63
MEDIUM HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.561 0.62 0.672 0.712 0.738 0.773 0.777 0.782 87 -1 1.23
92 China 0.533 0.556 0.608 0.657 0.719 0.756 0.763 0.772 99 7 1.37
134 India 0.427 0.453 0.489 0.511 0.556 0.596 0.604 0.612 134 0 1.33
141 Pakistan 0.402 0.423 0.449 0.469 .. 0.555 0.568 0.572 142 1 1.30
LOW HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
169 Liberia 0.365 0.37 0.325 0.28 0.419 0.427 0.434 0.442 169 0 0.71
178 Mali 0.245 0.239 0.254 0.267 0.316 0.361 0.366 0.371 179 1 1.53
179 Central African Republic 0.335 0.344 0.362 0.347 0.378 0.364 0.367 0.369 178 -1 0.36

Tha last column shows the %age of growth HDI of countries during 1980 to 2007,
it shows better growth in Medium human development countries. The US shows .25 % increase (minimum) while, Mali shows 1.53 % increase (maximum)
in the table.
Tha last column shows the %age of growth HDI of countries during 1980 to 2007,
it shows better growth in Medium human development countries. The US shows .25 % increase (minimum) while, Mali shows 1.53 % increase (maximum)
in the table.

1.2

0.8
Australia
Canada
Sweden
United States
Mali
0.6
Chile
Malaysia
Brazil
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
China
0.4 India
Liberia
Central African Republic

0.2

0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

Graph for Pakistan and Argentina is not included because data for 2000 is not available