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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 months agoOne of the big problems with HDI is that it fails to consider inequality and non-individual income; a country with 1 person making 1B/y and 999 people living in abject poverty gets the same per capita GNI as a country of 1000 people making 1m/y who have free housing, transport, and healthcare.
The latter obviously has better conditions for more people.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I thought hdi did take into account using the median instead of the mean metrics, but I’m not super familiar with how hdi is calculated.
redrumBot@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
There is a IHDI (inequality-adjusted Human Development Index):
World map showing more detailed breakdown of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (based on 2022 data, published in 2024).