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Human Development Report 2009

HHuman development index 2007 and its components
GDP per capita (PPP US$)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway 53,433 1
2 Australia 34,923
3 Iceland 35,742
4 Canada 35,812
5 Ireland 44,613 1
6 Netherlands 38,694
7 Sweden 36,712
8 France 33,674
9 Switzerland 40,658
10 Japan 33,632
11 Luxembourg 79,485 1
12 Finland 34,526
13 United States 45,592 1
14 Austria 37,370
15 Spain 31,560
16 Denmark 36,130
17 Belgium 34,935
18 Italy 30,353
19 Liechtenstein 85,382 1 2
20 New Zealand 27,336
21 United Kingdom 35,130
22 Germany 34,401
23 Singapore 49,704 1
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 42,306
25 Greece 28,517
26 Korea (Republic of) 24,801
27 Israel 26,315
28 Andorra 41,235 1 3
29 Slovenia 26,753
30 Brunei Darussalam 50,200 1
31 Kuwait 47,812 4 1
32 Cyprus 24,789
33 Qatar 74,882 4 1
34 Portugal 22,765
35 United Arab Emirates 54,626 4 5 1
36 Czech Republic 24,144
37 Barbados 17,956 4 5
38 Malta 23,080
39 Bahrain 29,723 4
40 Estonia 20,361
41 Poland 15,987
42 Slovakia 20,076
43 Hungary 18,755
44 Chile 13,880
45 Croatia 16,027
46 Lithuania 17,575
47 Antigua and Barbuda 18,691 5
48 Latvia 16,377
49 Argentina 13,238
50 Uruguay 11,216
51 Cuba 6,876 4 6
52 Bahamas 20,253 4 6
53 Mexico 14,104
54 Costa Rica 10,842 5
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 14,364 5
56 Oman 22,816 4
57 Seychelles 16,394 5
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,156
59 Saudi Arabia 22,935
60 Panama 11,391 5
61 Bulgaria 11,222
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 14,481 5
63 Romania 12,369
64 Trinidad and Tobago 23,507 5
65 Montenegro 11,699
66 Malaysia 13,518
67 Serbia 10,248 7
68 Belarus 10,841
69 Saint Lucia 9,786 5
70 Albania 7,041
71 Russian Federation 14,690
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 9,096
73 Dominica 7,893 5
74 Grenada 7,344 5
75 Brazil 9,567
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7,764
77 Colombia 8,587
78 Peru 7,836
79 Turkey 12,955
80 Ecuador 7,449
81 Mauritius 11,296
82 Kazakhstan 10,863
83 Lebanon 10,109
84 Armenia 5,693
85 Ukraine 6,914
86 Azerbaijan 7,851
87 Thailand 8,135
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 10,955
89 Georgia 4,662
90 Dominican Republic 6,706 5
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7,691 5
92 China 5,383
93 Belize 6,734 5
94 Samoa 4,467 5
95 Maldives 5,196
96 Jordan 4,901
97 Suriname 7,813 5
98 Tunisia 7,520
99 Tonga 3,748 5
100 Jamaica 6,079 5
101 Paraguay 4,433
102 Sri Lanka 4,243
103 Gabon 15,167
104 Algeria 7,740 5
105 Philippines 3,406
106 El Salvador 5,804 5
107 Syrian Arab Republic 4,511
108 Fiji 4,304
109 Turkmenistan 4,953 4 5
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories .. 4 8
111 Indonesia 3,712
112 Honduras 3,796 5
113 Bolivia 4,206
114 Guyana 2,782 5
115 Mongolia 3,236
116 Viet Nam 2,600
117 Moldova 2,551
118 Equatorial Guinea 30,627
119 Uzbekistan 2,425 5
120 Kyrgyzstan 2,006
121 Cape Verde 3,041
122 Guatemala 4,562
123 Egypt 5,349
124 Nicaragua 2,570 5
125 Botswana 13,604
126 Vanuatu 3,666 5
127 Tajikistan 1,753
128 Namibia 5,155
129 South Africa 9,757
130 Morocco 4,108
131 Sao Tome and Principe 1,638
132 Bhutan 4,837
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2,165
134 India 2,753
135 Solomon Islands 1,725 5
136 Congo 3,511
137 Cambodia 1,802
138 Myanmar 904 4 5
139 Comoros 1,143
140 Yemen 2,335
141 Pakistan 2,496
142 Swaziland 4,789
143 Angola 5,385
144 Nepal 1,049
145 Madagascar 932
146 Bangladesh 1,241
147 Kenya 1,542
148 Papua New Guinea 2,084 5
149 Haiti 1,155 5
150 Sudan 2,086
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 1,208
152 Ghana 1,334
153 Cameroon 2,128
154 Mauritania 1,927
155 Djibouti 2,061
156 Lesotho 1,541
157 Uganda 1,059
158 Nigeria 1,969
159 Togo 788
160 Malawi 761
161 Benin 1,312
162 Timor-Leste 717 5
163 Côte d'Ivoire 1,690
164 Zambia 1,358
165 Eritrea 626 5
166 Senegal 1,666
167 Rwanda 866
168 Gambia 1,225
169 Liberia 362
170 Guinea 1,140
171 Ethiopia 779
172 Mozambique 802
173 Guinea-Bissau 477
174 Burundi 341
175 Chad 1,477
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 298
177 Burkina Faso 1,124
178 Mali 1,083
179 Central African Republic 713
180 Sierra Leone 679
181 Afghanistan 1,054 4 9
182 Niger 627
Other UN member states
Iraq ..
Kiribati 1,295 5
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) ..
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) 2,802 5
Monaco ..
Nauru ..
Palau ..
San Marino ..
Somalia ..
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe ..

Notes :
1 - For the purposes of calculating the HDI, a value of 40,000 (PPP US$) was applied.
2 - HDRO estimate based on GDP from UN (2009c). "National Accounts Main Aggregates Database." http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/SelectionCountry.asp. Accessed May 2009 and the PPP exchange rate for Switzerland from World Bank (2009d). "World Development Indicators". Washington DC: World Bank.
3 - HDRO estimate based on GDP from UN (2009c). "National Accounts Main Aggregates Database." http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/SelectionCountry.asp. Accessed May 2009.
4 - Data refer to a year other than that specified.
5 - World Bank estimate based on regression.
6 - Heston, Summers and Aten (2006). "Penn World Table Version 6.2". Philadelphia: Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania. Data differ from the standard definition.
7 - Data exclude Kosovo.
8 - In the absence of an estimate of GDP per capita (PPP US$), an HDRO estimate of 2,243 (PPP US$) was used, derived from the value of GDP for 2005 in US$ and the weighted average ratio of PPP US$ to US$ in the Arab States. The value is expressed in 2007 prices.
9 - Calculated on the basis of GDP in PPP US$ for 2006 from World Bank (2009d). "World Development Indicators". Washington DC: World Bank and total population for the same year from UN (2009e). "World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision". New York: Department of Social and Economic Affairs.

Sources :
World Bank (2009d). "World Development Indicators". Washington DC: World Bank.
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