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srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=231 410w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=820&h=462 820w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=690&h=388 690w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1380&h=776 1380w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=950&h=534 950w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1900&h=1068 1900w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1600&h=900 1600w, https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/hong-kong-3698675_1920-e1541696511571.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=3200&h=1800 3200w" sizes="(min-width: 64em) 1600px, (min-width: 48em) 950px, (min-width: 26.5625em) 690px, 410px" alt="Hong Kong, not Norway, could be the best country in the world to live" class="" decoding="async"/></div></div><figcaption class="aM8kg _2DJEv">A country’s level of development should be measured by more than just economic growth.</figcaption></figure></header><div class="cqh93"><div class="tDvCK"><div class="au9XZ"><div class="_6U9k-"><div class="_2zZ7c"><div class="_495ml fP1qv"><div class="d7joa">By <span class="_1WY-H"><a class="bi4tr" href="/web/20210123084607/https://qz.com/author/warren-sanderson/">Warren Sanderson</a></span><span>, </span><span class="_1WY-H"><a class="bi4tr" href="/web/20210123084607/https://qz.com/author/sergei-scherbov/">Sergei Scherbov</a></span><span> & </span><span class="_1WY-H"><a class="bi4tr" href="/web/20210123084607/https://qz.com/author/simone-ghislandi/">Simone Ghislandi</a></span></div></div><div class="c-JR9"><time datetime="2018-11-08T17:11:44.000Z">November 8, 2018</time><span class="_5SuSz">This article is more than 2 years old.</span></div></div></div><div id="article-content"><p class="cyhZ9">Every year, the United Nations releases <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI">the Human Development Index</a>.</p><p class="cyhZ9">The HDI is like a country’s report card. In a single number, it tells policymakers and citizens how well a country is doing. This year, Norway was at the top of the class, while Niger finished last. </p><p class="cyhZ9">The index first appeared in 1990. Before then, a country’s level of development was measured solely by its economic growth. By taking non-economic dimensions of human well-being into account, the HDI revolutionized the idea of what was meant by countries becoming “more developed.” </p><p class="cyhZ9">The HDI has been wildly successful in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/celebrating-human-development-success">changing the way people think</a> about the development process. However, it still <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://doi.org/10.2307/2808029">suffers from</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.01.003">real flaws</a>. There have been numerous attempts to do its job better, including <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12205">one that we published on Nov. 6</a>.</p><p class="cyhZ9">Eliminating the flaws in the HDI make a substantial difference. For example, Denmark was ranked fifth in the world according to this year’s UN rankings, but our new index knocks it down to only 27th, switching places with Spain.</p><h2 class="et6CV">Problems with the HDI</h2><p class="cyhZ9">Human development can be devilishly hard to measure. The HDI considers changes in three domains: economics, education, and health. (One alternative to the HDI, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://www.socialprogress.org/">the Social Progress Index</a>, combines data on 54 domains.)</p><p class="cyhZ9">In our view, the HDI has three main problems. First, it implicitly assumes trade-offs between its components. For example, the HDI measures health using life expectancy at birth and measures economic conditions using GDP per capita. So the same HDI score can be achieved with different combinations of the two. </p><p class="cyhZ9">As a result, the HDI implies a value of an additional year of life in terms of economic output. This value differs according to a country’s level of GDP per capita. Dig into the HDI and you will find whether it assumes an additional year of life is worth more in the US or Canada, more in Germany or France, and more in Norway or Niger. </p><p class="cyhZ9">The HDI also struggles with the accuracy and meaningfulness of the underlying data. Average income could be high in a country, but what if most of it goes to a small elite? The HDI does not distinguish between countries with the same GDP per capita, but different levels of income inequality or between countries based on the quality of education. By focusing on averages, the HDI can obscure important differences in human development. Incorporating inaccurate or incomplete data in an index reduces its usefulness.</p><p class="cyhZ9">Finally, data on different domains may be highly correlated. For example, the GDP per capita and the average level of education in countries are strongly related. Including two highly correlated indicators may provide little additional information compared to just using one.</p><h2 class="et6CV">Our indicator</h2><p class="cyhZ9">We propose a new index: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12205">the Human Life Indicator, or HLI</a>. </p><p class="cyhZ9">The HLI looks at life expectancy at birth, but also takes the inequality in longevity into account. If two countries had the same life expectancy, the country with the higher rate of infant and child deaths would have a lower HLI.</p><figure class="_8xuzD fRt9r _2zyyQ"><div class="_2BmSp"><div class="_57zR9" style="padding-bottom:70.44444444444444%"><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607im_/https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RTX2VYP0.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=450&h=317&crop=1" alt="A visitor to Victoria Peak takes photographs of buildings on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon"/></noscript></div><div class="cUGFQ">Reuters/David Gray</div></div><figcaption class="_48Mmd">Hong Kong’s inequality-adjusted life expectancy is the highest in the world, according to the HLI.</figcaption></figure><p class="cyhZ9">This solves the problem of having contentious trade-offs among its components, because it has only a single component. It solves the problem of inaccurate data, because <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/https://doi.org/10.3386/w16572">life expectancy is the most reliable component</a> of the UN’s index. Because GDP per capita, the level of education and life expectancy are closely related to one another, little information is lost by using a human development indicator based only on life expectancy. </p><p class="cyhZ9">Our index draws a different picture than the one made by the HDI. Based on data from 2010 to 2015, Norway is not on top of the list in terms of human development. That honor goes to Hong Kong, while Norway drops to ninth place. Norway ranks highly on the HDI in part because of the revenues that it receives from North Sea oil and gas, but even with that revenue, Norway’s inequality-adjusted life expectancy is not the highest in the world. </p><p class="cyhZ9">What’s more, on our measure, Niger no longer is last. That dubious distinction goes to the Central African Republic.</p><p class="cyhZ9">The UN puts Canada and the US as tied at 10th place, but Canada is ranked 17th in the world using our system, while the US does poorly, ranking as 32nd. This relatively higher ranking of Canada reflects the higher longevity of its inhabitants and the lower inequality in their ages of death compared to people in the US.</p><p class="cyhZ9">In our view, the genius of the HDI is too important to give up, just because of problems with its implementation. In our new index, we have provided a simple approach that is free from the problems of the HDI. There is no need to have just one measure of human development, but it is useful to have at least one without contentious flaws.</p><p class="cyhZ9"><em>This article is republished from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123084607/http://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. 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There have been numerous attempts to do its job better, including \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com\u002Fdoi\u002F10.1111\u002Fpadr.12205\"\u003Eone that we published on Nov. 6\u003C\u002Fa\u003E.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw0":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"230"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw0","innerHtml":"Eliminating the flaws in the HDI make a substantial difference. For example, Denmark was ranked fifth in the world according to this year’s UN rankings, but our new index knocks it down to only 27th, switching places with Spain.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw1":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw1","innerHtml":"Problems with the HDI","tagName":"h2","type":"H2"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw2":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"216"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw2","innerHtml":"Human development can be devilishly hard to measure. The HDI considers changes in three domains: economics, education, and health. (One alternative to the HDI, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.socialprogress.org\u002F\"\u003Ethe Social Progress Index\u003C\u002Fa\u003E, combines data on 54 domains.)","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw3":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"311"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw3","innerHtml":"In our view, the HDI has three main problems. First, it implicitly assumes trade-offs between its components. For example, the HDI measures health using life expectancy at birth and measures economic conditions using GDP per capita. So the same HDI score can be achieved with different combinations of the two. ","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw4":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"339"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw4","innerHtml":"As a result, the HDI implies a value of an additional year of life in terms of economic output. This value differs according to a country’s level of GDP per capita. Dig into the HDI and you will find whether it assumes an additional year of life is worth more in the US or Canada, more in Germany or France, and more in Norway or Niger. ","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw5":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"516"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXw5","innerHtml":"The HDI also struggles with the accuracy and meaningfulness of the underlying data. Average income could be high in a country, but what if most of it goes to a small elite? The HDI does not distinguish between countries with the same GDP per capita, but different levels of income inequality or between countries based on the quality of education. By focusing on averages, the HDI can obscure important differences in human development. Incorporating inaccurate or incomplete data in an index reduces its usefulness.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMA==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"275"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMA==","innerHtml":"Finally, data on different domains may be highly correlated. For example, the GDP per capita and the average level of education in countries are strongly related. Including two highly correlated indicators may provide little additional information compared to just using one.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMQ==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMQ==","innerHtml":"Our indicator","tagName":"h2","type":"H2"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMg==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"58"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMg==","innerHtml":"We propose a new index: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com\u002Fdoi\u002F10.1111\u002Fpadr.12205\"\u003Ethe Human Life Indicator, or HLI\u003C\u002Fa\u003E. ","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMw==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"230"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxMw==","innerHtml":"The HLI looks at life expectancy at birth, but also takes the inequality in longevity into account. If two countries had the same life expectancy, the country with the higher rate of infant and child deaths would have a lower HLI.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNQ==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"437"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNQ==","innerHtml":"This solves the problem of having contentious trade-offs among its components, because it has only a single component. It solves the problem of inaccurate data, because \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.3386\u002Fw16572\"\u003Elife expectancy is the most reliable component\u003C\u002Fa\u003E of the UN’s index. Because GDP per capita, the level of education and life expectancy are closely related to one another, little information is lost by using a human development indicator based only on life expectancy. ","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNg==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"444"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNg==","innerHtml":"Our index draws a different picture than the one made by the HDI. Based on data from 2010 to 2015, Norway is not on top of the list in terms of human development. That honor goes to Hong Kong, while Norway drops to ninth place. Norway ranks highly on the HDI in part because of the revenues that it receives from North Sea oil and gas, but even with that revenue, Norway’s inequality-adjusted life expectancy is not the highest in the world. ","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNw==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"118"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxNw==","innerHtml":"What’s more, on our measure, Niger no longer is last. That dubious distinction goes to the Central African Republic.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxOA==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"320"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxOA==","innerHtml":"The UN puts Canada and the US as tied at 10th place, but Canada is ranked 17th in the world using our system, while the US does poorly, ranking as 32nd. This relatively higher ranking of Canada reflects the higher longevity of its inhabitants and the lower inequality in their ages of death compared to people in the US.","tagName":"p","type":"P"},"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxOQ==":{"__typename":"Block","attributes":[{"__typename":"Attribute","name":"characterCount","value":"338"}],"id":"YmxvY2s6Y0c5emREb3hORFUyTURFeXwxOQ==","innerHtml":"In our view, the genius of the HDI is too important to give up, just because of problems with its implementation. In our new index, we have provided a simple approach that is free from the problems of the HDI. 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