UNDP Human Development composite indices, annual

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Annual UNDP Human Development Report composite indices and headline components for 156-195 countries, 1990-2023 (keyless HDRO download, HDR 2025 statistical annex complete time series): the Human Development Index (HDI) with its life-expectancy, expected/mean-years-of-schooling and GNI-per-capita components, the inequality-adjusted HDI (2010+), Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, planetary pressures-adjusted HDI and production-based CO2 emissions per capita. The development baseline layer for country-risk, ESG and global-macro models; joins on (country_code, year) with the catalog's other global panels. UNDP recalculates the full series each year with the latest methodology; this snapshot pins HDR 2025.

Source: UNDP Human Development composite-indices intelligence
Rows: 54,611
Columns: 11
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 4, 2026
Theme: development

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (HDR annex field iso3; the 11 UNDP aggregate rows ZZA.VHHD..ZZK.WORLD dropped).
country	string	Country name from the catalog's canonical ISO3 mapper.
indicator	string	Canonical indicator code: hdi, ihdi, gdi, gii, phdi, le, eys, mys, gnipc, co2_prod.
indicator_label	string	Human-readable indicator definition from the HDR 2025 annex codebook.
unit	string	Unit of value: index points, ratio, years, 2021 PPP $, or tonnes.
year	integer	Reference year (1990-2023; ihdi 2010-2023). UNDP recalculates the full series each HDR with the latest methodology.
value	float	Indicator value in the stated unit.
hdi_group	string	HDR 2025 HDI group: Low, Medium, High or Very High (annex field hdicode).
undp_region	string	UNDP developing region (AS, EAP, ECA, LAC, SA, SSA; empty for high-income economies).
data_source	string	Provenance label: UNDP HDRO HDR 2025 statistical annex.
row_hash	string	Deterministic sha256(country_code\|indicator\|year) truncated to 12 hex chars; row identity key.

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country_code	country	indicator	indicator_label	unit	year	value	hdi_group	undp_region	data_source	row_hash
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,990	0.189	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	abf03875bfc0
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,991	0.178	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	9484ed2fd78f
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,992	0.123	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	3d0f976324f2
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,993	0.106	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	f82104da7150
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,994	0.094	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	711d32b22a70
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,995	0.086	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	ca7d766fe6bc
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,996	0.08	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	d7f98288349d
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,997	0.073	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	21c87ffe2830
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,998	0.069	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	6214be92f21f
AFG	Afghanistan	co2_prod	CO2 emissions per capita (production-based)	tonnes	1,999	0.057	Low	SA	UNDP Human Development Report Office, HDR 2025 statistical annex (HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv)	8038a2c2113e

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print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

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for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

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UNDP Human Development composite-indices intelligence. (2026). UNDP Human Development composite indices, annual [Data set, snapshot 20261004T222012Z-e1cdd9787dcd, sha256 e1cdd9787dcd]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-05, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/undp_hdr_composite_intel/undp_human_development_annual?snapshot=20261004T222012Z-e1cdd9787dcd

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@misc{dz_undp_hdr_composite_intel_undp_human_deve_e1cdd978,
  title        = {{UNDP Human Development composite indices, annual}},
  author       = {{UNDP Human Development composite-indices intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/undp_hdr_composite_intel/undp_human_development_annual?snapshot=20261004T222012Z-e1cdd9787dcd}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261004T222012Z-e1cdd9787dcd, sha256 e1cdd9787dcd7488d6d3eff9609e30de4f7ca884267f3b1552a3081e2540cc76; accessed 2026-10-05}
}

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