So basically it mixes:
• Life expectancy
• Expected years of schooling + Mean years of schooling
• GNI (Gross National Income) per capita,
🤔 While I tend to agree with what I see on the map, I think it’s a quite superficial index, needs more parameters to be representative I believe. Such as public money spent on disability/elderly services, amount of drug/alcohol addiction, percentage of people below poverty index, literacy regarding finance/bureaucracy/whatnot, depression incidence, air quality, corruption, perception of safety and crimes by type, amount of police stations or hospitals per capita… So many.
Low_Cut_368 on
So the best places to live if you want the maximum HDI are Stockholm, Oslo, London, Hamburg and Zürich
DrTonyTiger on
It would be interesting to have Transnistria on there. So close.
A more general question: The data source provides the map with global data. Why gray out some places for this map, rather than just limiting the extent to the area of interest?
![European Subdivisions by Human Developement Index (HDI) [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cjmpf2p3e9lg1-1536x1190.png "European Subdivisions by Human Developement Index (HDI) [OC]")
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It would have been nice to add the year.
What are the factors that contribute in this index?
Found a Wiki page for it:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index)
So basically it mixes:
• Life expectancy
• Expected years of schooling + Mean years of schooling
• GNI (Gross National Income) per capita,
🤔 While I tend to agree with what I see on the map, I think it’s a quite superficial index, needs more parameters to be representative I believe. Such as public money spent on disability/elderly services, amount of drug/alcohol addiction, percentage of people below poverty index, literacy regarding finance/bureaucracy/whatnot, depression incidence, air quality, corruption, perception of safety and crimes by type, amount of police stations or hospitals per capita… So many.
So the best places to live if you want the maximum HDI are Stockholm, Oslo, London, Hamburg and Zürich
It would be interesting to have Transnistria on there. So close.
A more general question: The data source provides the map with global data. Why gray out some places for this map, rather than just limiting the extent to the area of interest?