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Five Highest HDI Countries by Continent

What are the five most developed countries in each continent according to HDI?
HDI measures life expectancy, education, and income
2021/2022 HDI report except for the countries marked in gold
No data for Monaco and the Vatican
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First submittedDecember 20, 2015
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Africa
0.802
Mauritius
0.785
Seychelles
0.745
Algeria
0.731
Tunisia
0.731
Egypt
 
 
Asia
0.939
Singapore
0.925
Japan
0.925
South Korea
0.919
Israel
0.916
Taiwan
Europe
0.962
Switzerland
0.961
Norway
0.959
Iceland
0.948
Denmark
0.947
Sweden
 
 
North America
0.936
Canada
0.921
United States
0.812
Bahamas
0.810
Trinidad and Tobago
0.809
Costa Rica
Oceania
0.951
Australia
0.937
New Zealand
0.767
Palau
0.745
Tonga
0.730
Fiji
 
 
South America
0.855
Chile
0.842
Argentina
0.809
Uruguay
0.762
Peru
0.754
Brazil
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37 Comments
Quizmaster
+53
Level ∞
Oct 24, 2018
For those who are wondering how Venezuela is still on the list keep in mind that it takes a long time for life expectancy to fall in the event of economic collapse. Education takes even longer to fall, since all the people with degrees still have them even if they can't get a job. Finally, Venezuela has a decent amount of oil income still. HDI doesn't measure how well that income actually reaches the people.
ed1969
+11
Level 72
Oct 26, 2018
Thanks for clarification. I was really surprised to see Venezuela on this list.
cornflakesfu
+4
Level 87
Jan 18, 2019
Yeah. Never would have gotten it if South America didn't have such a small number of countries total.
Jerry928
+10
Level 76
Oct 24, 2018
Liechtenstein just has to be there, surely? And Qatar has the highest GDP in the world, so am surprised to see it missing from the Asia list.
blackholexsun
+35
Level 63
Jan 18, 2019
Qatar also has literal slave labor right now, so I'm not surprised they're not here.
QuizzerBros
+5
Level 68
Oct 20, 2021
I'm pretty sure USA has the highest GDP in the world, followed by a long list of other countries before Qatar. GDP per capita however is a different story....
TheLastFish
+1
Level 70
Oct 24, 2018
Well San Marino and Monaco should really not be on the list. In 2009 (year of their source), both had an HDI comparable to Singapore. This means both are most likely now at about 0.93 and thus AT MOST number 6 and 7 in Europe....
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Oct 25, 2018
HDIs are going up generally. So, if anything, Monaco and San Marino would be higher.
OfficerDibble
+14
Level 82
Oct 25, 2018
Well done, Canada.
smartguy2
+8
Level 68
Oct 27, 2018
Thanks OfficerDibble!
samiamco
+8
Level 68
Oct 28, 2018
smartguy2 is clearly Canadian. So polite!
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Aug 29, 2019
Why Canada? They come in at 8th overall...

Or has this been updated since your comment?

Sifhraven
+11
Level 72
Oct 16, 2019
they are first in north america, but yea behind europe and australia and singapore.

Still you dont always have to be first to say well done. 8th in a list of approx 197 is well done. "winning" isnt everything, only for people that like to brag. Doing well is what matters (I am talking with things in general not just about the quiz subject)? For instance on a climb of mount everest I wouldnt call the ones that didnt come first losers, it is still and achievement. Sometimes people are so focussed on that first place like it is all or nothing. Ok I'll stop ranting, or next I'll be on about the environment or something ;) (where the attitude often is, when you can 100% fix something ( but maybe 90%) why bother even trying)

GeoDude
+4
Level 47
Jan 18, 2019
Surprised Liechtenstein wasn't here, and Sweden
Sifhraven
+4
Level 72
Oct 16, 2019
yea, expected sweden, denmark, netherlands before ireland. Also iceland
kenlybe
+1
Level 24
Jun 17, 2020
I was like: "I did the whole of South-America, how didn't I find it?".. I had already said for myself that Venezuela was no use trying and it'd be ridiculous even putting it in. I already thought I was stupid when I put in Bolivia as a desperate answer. How wrong I was.
Yodaas
+2
Level 43
Jul 25, 2020
6.9%... nice
Algernon
+2
Level 73
Dec 24, 2020
Needs more time. As @someone2018 says, Africa in particular is pure pot luck
AlexThirkell
+9
Level 75
Jan 16, 2021
Africa is hard, but not pure pot luck.

A passing interest in current African affairs will help you pick out the success stories and avoid the horror stories.

Koult45
+4
Level 53
Mar 13, 2021
Nah, not really. All countries in the top 5 are isolated from the center of Africa, so there's definitely an easily noticeable pattern. North Africa, Southern Africa, African Islands.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Oct 24, 2024
And now it's not even southern Africa. Just North Africa and the islands.
mpepperdine
+1
Level 75
Apr 10, 2021
Definitely not pot luck. I made 10 guesses and got the 5, it’s fairly intuitive. Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Rwanda and Egypt were the only other ones that felt in contention.
Koult45
+1
Level 53
Mar 13, 2021
It was down to 0:08 seconds and I had 28/30 and the only two that were missing were the last 2 North American countries. I knew they had to be Caribbean even though I hadn't tried all the Central American countries because Costa Rica hadn't gone through. I knew Bahamas would be there so I tried that first. But had no clue after that. It was SHEER LUCK that I guessed Barbados 2nd of all the tiny Caribbean countries, with 0:02 left. So a pretty lucky 30/30 all in all.
luxint
+1
Level 66
Apr 10, 2021
Botswana pretty much adrift there at the bottom on 41%?
mpepperdine
+1
Level 75
Apr 10, 2021
Real race against the timer here, I struggled with the last N. American country for quite a while, and only made it 30/30 in the last few seconds with Botswana.
Shamooski19
+1
Level 67
Apr 10, 2021
Of all the countries to miss, Switzerland???

I'm so embarrassed

yeeterboi69
+1
Level 44
Sep 2, 2021
Honestly, these answers suprised me
avshi
+6
Level 66
Sep 14, 2021
Go Israel!

Despite all the hardships, making the unbelievable.

ZIZI
+1
Level 61
Nov 25, 2022
Which hardships are you referring to? I'm talking strictly about recently of course...
Mo7
+2
Level 45
Jan 25, 2023
the hardships of being an apartheid state?
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 80
Nov 13, 2023
This aged rather unfortunately
Haobo
+1
Level 47
Nov 5, 2022
Africa and South America are poor, they don't even have a country with HDI over than 0.9.
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
Dec 26, 2022
south america's HDIs have little variation so its average is prob higher than most continents
VietnamGlobal321
+1
Level 34
Dec 26, 2022
@Haobo is so right literally like Mauritius the highest none of their countries make the top 45 Mauritius is 50th
Savio
+1
Level 66
Jan 10, 2023
Is it just a coincidence that Africa's 2 highest HDI countries are island nations? Does isolation from mainland Africa, or just the mainland of a continent in general, have any impact on life expectancy, education, and income? You see the same trend with some island countries, like Iceland, Singapore, Japan, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago (obviously Oceanian countries).
babie90s
+1
Level 57
Aug 13, 2023
might be some national acknowledge of self sufficiency necessity
GeoGeniusThe1
+1
Level 38
Nov 3, 2024
W israel
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