The Human Development Index (HDI) for Nigeria, published by the United Nations, is a composite measure including life expectancy, educational attainment, and income level.
It aims to measure not only incomes but life quality as well.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
The HDI is the most widely used indicator of human development and has changed how people view the concept.
Subnational Human Development Index of Nigeria
The HDI was first published in 1990 with the goal of being a more comprehensive measure of human development than purely economic measures such as gross domestic product.
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The index incorporates three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent living standards.
Various indicators are used to quantify how countries perform on each dimension.
Understanding Human Development Index (HDI): A Comprehensive Guide"
The indicators used in the 2022 report were life expectancy at birth; expected years of schooling for children; mean years of schooling for adults; and gross national income per capita.
The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1.
The geometric mean of the three indices-that is, the cube root of the product of the indices-is the human development index.
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The data used to calculate HDI comes mostly from United Nations agencies and international institutions, such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Rarely, when one of the indicators is missing, cross-country regression models are used.
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, as well as Hong Kong SAR and Palestine.
However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: Monaco and North Korea, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.
The Human Development Report also reports the HDI for various groups of countries.
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Historically, the average for Nigeria from 2003 to 2023 is 0.508 points.
The latest value from 2023 is 0.56 points, an increase from 0.548 points in 2022.
In comparison, the world average is 0.744 points, based on data from 185 countries.
Graphical Abstract of Human Development Report 2022
Here's a table summarizing Nigeria's HDI trend:
| Year | HDI Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.548 |
| 2023 | 0.560 |
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