International Human Development Indicators

Hong Kong, China (SAR)

Profile of human development indicators

Human Development Index

Ranking

Year	Hong Kong, China (SAR)	Very high human development	World
2012	0.906	0.905	0.694
2011	0.904	0.904	0.692
2010	0.900	0.902	0.690
2009	0.894	0.898	0.685
2008	0.892	0.898	0.683
2007	0.877	0.896	0.678
2006	0.865	0.892	0.672
2005	0.857	0.889	0.666
2000	0.815	0.867	0.639
1995	n.a.	n.a.	0.618
1990	0.788	0.817	0.600
1985	n.a.	n.a.	0.578
1980	0.712	0.773	0.561

Health

Indicator	Value	Notes
Expenditure on health, public (% of GDP) (%)	n.a.
Under-five mortality (per 1,000 live births)	n.a.
Life expectancy at birth (years)	83.0
Health index	0.994

Education

Indicator	Value	Notes
Public expenditure on education (% of GDP) (%)	3.6
Primary school teachers trained to teach (%)	95.6	¹
Primary school dropout rates (% of primary school cohort)	0.5
Expected Years of Schooling (of children) (years)	15.5	²
Adult literacy rate, both sexes (% aged 15 and above)	n.a.
Mean years of schooling (of adults) (years)	10.0	³
Education index	0.831
Combined gross enrolment in education (both sexes) (%)	83.0	⁴

Income

Indicator	Value	Notes
GNI per capita in PPP terms (constant 2005 international $) (Constant 2005 international $)	45,598

Inequality

Indicator	Value	Notes
Loss due to inequality in life expectancy (%)	2.9
Loss due to inequality in education (%)	n.a.
Loss due to inequality in income (%)	n.a.
Inequality-adjusted education index	n.a.
Inequality-adjusted life expectancy index	0.962
Inequality-adjusted income index	n.a.
Inequality-adjusted HDI value	n.a.

Poverty

Indicator	Value	Notes
MPI: Multidimensional poverty index (%)	n.a.
MPI: Intensity of deprivation	n.a.
MPI: Headcount, percentage of population in multidimensional poverty (% of population)	n.a.
MPI: Population living below $1.25 PPP per day (%)	n.a.

Gender

Indicator	Value	Notes
Population with at least secondary education, female/male ratio (Ratio of female to male rates)	0.948
Adolescent fertility rate (women aged 15-19 years) (births per 1,000 women aged 15-19)	3.2
Labour force participation rate, female-male ratio (Ratio of female to male shares)	0.749
GII: Gender Inequality Index, value	n.a.
Shares in parliament, female-male ratio	n.a.
Maternal mortality ratio (deaths of women per100,000 live births)	n.a.

Sustainability

Indicator	Value	Notes
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes)	5.5
Population living on degraded land (%)	n.a.
Change in forest area, 1990/2010 (%)	n.a.

Demography

Indicator	Value	Notes
Population, total both sexes (thousands)	7,196.5	⁵ ⁶
Population, urban (%) (% of population)	100.0
Population, female (thousands)	3,790.06
Population, male (thousands)	3,406.39

Composite indices

Indicator	Value	Notes
Non-income HDI value	0.907

Innovation and technology

Indicator	Value	Notes
Fixed and mobile telephone subscribers per 100 people (per100 people)	256.9

Trade, economy and income

Indicator	Value	Notes
GDP per capita (2005 PPP $)	43,844
Income index	0.904

Footnotes

1.	Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
2.	Data refer to 2011 or the most recent year available.
3.	Data refer to 2010 or the most recent year available.
4.	Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified.
5.	As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.
6.	Projections based on medium-fertility variant.

n.a.	Data not available

Capital

N/A

Human Development Index: Trends 1980 - present

The Human Development Index - going beyond income

Each year since 1990 the Human Development Report has published the Human Development Index (HDI) which was introduced as an alternative to conventional measures of national development, such as level of income and the rate of economic growth. The HDI represents a push for a broader definition of well-being and provides a composite measure of three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and income. Between 1980 and 2012 Hong Kong, China (SAR)'s HDI rose by 1.0% annually from 0.712 to 0.906 today, which gives the country a rank of 13 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI trends tell an important story both at the national and regional level and highlight the very large gaps in well-being and life chances that continue to divide our interconnected world. Learn more

International Human Development Indicators - United Nations Development Programme

Hong Kong, China (SAR)

Profile of human development indicators

Human Development Index: Trends 1980 - present

The Human Development Index - going beyond income

Human Development Index: Health, Education and Income