Human Development Index scores for EU Russia Ukraine and the world

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) measures how countries’ well-being improves in three dimensions: a decent standard of living (gross national income per capita), a long and healthy life (life expectancy), and knowledge (education). In 2000, Russia was considered a country with ‘medium human development’, ranking 62nd out of 173 countries (HDI 2002). Since then, Russia has progressed in all three dimensions: in the latest index (HDI 2020, 2019 data), it ranks 52nd out of 189 countries; its score of 0.824 (see Figure 2) ranks it among the 66 countries with a ‘very high human development’.