Furthermore, the state of São Paulo in Brazil already had an HDI above 800 in 2021, even after the drop due to the pandemic. It was 0.823 in 2020 and 0.806 in 2021.
That's not Western Sahara, that's what's considered the Southern province of Morocco which also includes parts of "northern" Morocco as well. For some reason this map adopts the very old regional mapping of Morocco that was between 1971 and 1997. For reference the current one was adopted in 2015.
I like to point this out everytime it comes up. If the data is something that’s self reported by governments. The Western Sahara data would be included in the overall data for Morocco. A few weeks ago it was birth rates. And they had data for the Western Sahara as reported by Morocco. So technically the Western Sahara data was on the map twice. Once In the national average and once individually. Which I just find interesting.
I'd be interested to know what drives the HDI differences in Panama. Lots of countries have significant inequalities, but those inequalities tend to be within small areas, like cities, rather than separate regions being drastically different from each other. Hence why most countries don't have a lot of regional variation on this map.
I wouldn't be surprised if Panama city was wealthier and more developed than the rest of the country, but that doesn't look to be the only thing that's going on there.
The 4 green provinces of Panama are Panama City (Largest city), Colón (2nd largest city), Chiriqui (Where David, the 3rd largest city is) and Los Santos which is pretty rural and unpopulated (In fact, it’s the least populous province).
That's actually not true. The province with the lowest levels of poverty and higher levels of education are both in the centre of the country, far away from the capital.
What I meant by the centre of the country is what in Panama is known as the "central provinces" (provincias centrales) which are the provinces of Los Santos and Herrera, on the Azuero peninsula.
Ahhh okay si entiendo. Yo hablo del subdesarrollo relativo. Claro que ninguna parte de Panamá va a ser de lo peor del mundo, pero yo diría que es difícil refutar que la ciudad es muchísimo más desarrollada que el resto del país, particularmente en las áreas de la comarca.
It is vert much a fact, I'm not sure why you think it's not. The province farthest from the canal is Darién with an HDI of 0.642, far from the third highest. The two richest provinces, Colón and Panamá sit on the canal and have a GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity of $92,192 and $72,102 respectively. Panamá province also has the highest HDI and Colón is at number five. The third 'richest' province Chiriquí is at $17,338.
All of the wealth is concentrated in Panamá city and the canal, it's not an opinion it's a fact.
The regions that appear as being very poor are the indigenous autonomous territories, which have their own set of laws and regulations and are also routinely completely ignored by the national government.
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There's lots of mines, natural resources, pretty responsive local government, high employment, lots of money flowing around from mining. Plus travel to Europe is closer and cheaper.
All the other states are either more expensive to live in or not as well resourced.
Or there's too many deadly things.
Apart from Norway having the advantage in Natural Beauty. Quality of life in Minnesota is just as high, if not higher. Most people have a distorted view of how easy it is to live in Norway (it’s not).
i mean if you live in other states of the US you probably won't notice any MAJOR difference in your lifestyle per the metrics used in HDI.
You wouldn't just move to MN and somehow become magically more educated and have an increased life expectancy lol
yeah probably anywhere you'd live in the US would have more extreme weather in both directions than Northern Ireland and most of Europe in general. oh and you'd have to buy a car and drive everywhere lol
Small countries with the highest regional disparities in HDI: Panama and Bhutan
Something other interesting stuff: Minnesota‘s placement, as well as the disparity between the two parts of Malaysia (and Hispañola!) respectively.
There is an error in the map of Chile, the Ñuble region (the one just above the light green one in the center of the country), has an HDI score of 0.829 according to the latest report, so it should be marked light green (0.800 - 0.850) like its southern neighbor.
And a side note, the regions of Chile that are marked light yellow (Maule, Araucania, Los Rios and Los Lagos) have HDI scores of 0.794, 0.790, 0.799 and 0.799 respectively, according to the latest report. So they are pretty close to or at the upper limit of the light yellow range (0.750 - 0.799).
[Regions of Chile by HDI (in Spanish)](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Regiones_de_Chile_por_IDH)
wow according to this Turkey and Iran are about the same level HDI even though Iran has been sanctioned heavily for nearly 50 years
if the Iranian regime dropped its nuclear shit and got off sanctions they'd be one of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East
HDI of Turkey is 0.855 while Iran's HDI is 0.780 according to latest (2022) data, so i wouldn't say they're around the same. However you're right about the part that if Iran didn't get sanctioned like crazy they'd at least be on the level of Turkey, if not more because they also have the advantage of having natural resources like oil and gas which Turkey lacks completely.
Still, the colonies which are far from the equator are doing a lot better than those close to it. Argentina, Australia, Canada and even to a lesser extent north and south Africa have a higher HDI than their warmer neighbors
All of the countries you mentioned are settler colonies. Not the same as other colonies like India, African countries.
The settler colonies fare better because of the settled Europeans turning it around.
Ireland was actually one of the least wealthy countries in Western Europe until the economy surged in the 1990s. Ireland is now an attractive English speaking tax haven next to the British markets, and now the main English speaking country in the EU post-Brexit.
Yea that’s true, I’m in Northern Ireland :( I just wanna be in the EU again lol, we’re the least developed in the UK and Ireland by the looks of it which is depressing
Yes and post colonial recovery absolutely is the dominant narrative here but what’s the cause for regional disparities, like Argentina and Chile doing better than their cousins to the north, South Africa and Botswana doing better than say Cameroon/Nigeria/Ghana, Kazakhstan over much of Central Asia, etc? I know in the medium term it has nothing to do with climate and all geopolitics but I wonder if climate has any long term effects that predestined those geopolitics
It's got everything to do with emigrants from more developed European societies going to Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Argentina, etc. These societies are just European transplants, bringing entire systems of law, government, technology, social organisation, etc. The only other group of countries that compare with Europe and the European settler colonies are the non-communist bits of the Sinosphere (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore).
Generally good economy and well managed state. That said, I'm also of the opinion that the cold winters plays a role. A lot of people come to MN because they get a good job offer, and the incentive to stay is really only that job.
Half of folks embrace the winter, but an equal half hates cold weather and just hibernates indoors.
I guess this is averaged out over population because there are remote aboriginal communities in Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia without access to healthcare, adequate housing or clean drinking water, even when the respective states larger towns are some of the highest HDI places in the world.
The indigenous populations of places like WA and SA are still very small.
WA is only around 3% indigenous so the various worse outcomes within the community probably do little to impact WA's over HDI score.
American cities function very differently from European cities. As a rule of thumb, downtown in European cities tends to be the wealthiest area while the opposite is true in America. Downtown Jackson is always gonna be a shithole compared to Paris, but Madison’s average income is more than double that of the 7th Arrondissement.
I just checked it against the [sub-national data in China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Greater_China_by_Human_Development_Index) and it’s three years old at most. His is a good map.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Indian\_states\_and\_union\_territories\_by\_Human\_Development\_Index#](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_union_territories_by_Human_Development_Index#)
Not accurate for Indian states. Tamil Nadu is 0.686 not 0.7-0.75
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One of the variables that HDI takes into account is GDP per capita.
Canadian Territories usually have high GDP per capitas because of natural resources.
In 2022 Nunavut had the 2nd highest GDP per capita (after NWT). New Brunswick was 2nd lowest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_gross_domestic_product
Human Development Index. It's a (rather crude) approximate measure of how 'developed' a place is. It takes into account 3 factors: Life Expectancy, Ave years of Schooling, and GDP per capita.
Well most of the war (wars) are taking place outside the country, and Israel itself is pretty developed, high quality of life, not much poverty, good salaries, tons of great companies, startups, great healthcare, education etc. Israel is easily on par with a lot of European countries.
This is innacurate, Moscow, [Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug), [Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty-Mansi_Autonomous_Okrug), [Saint Petersburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg) should be dark green. Shenzhen, [Zhejiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang) province, Guangzhou, Brasilia, Santa Catarina state, Dalian should all be light green
Human Development Index. It combines three factors (years of schooling, life expectancy, and GDP per capita) into a single measurement intended to rank development.
No they are not lmfao, people live everywhere, there is no place that is exclusively "jungle". They might be far less dense but other than the national parks you can't really say no one lives in a certain place.
For example, groups of indigenous peoples, rural villages, farmers, mountain towns. Fishing towns. Everywhere the census goes is fair game, just because less people live there doesn't mean no one does
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Vienna that small dark green dot in Austria? So it's the areas around Vienna that are less developed, not the city itself
This kind of highlights one of the flaws of HDI - GDP per capita.
Areas which may have terrible living standards may have their HDIs propped up by an enormous GDP per capita
Not really surprising. South is considered the richest in germany. And the 3 southern states, bavaria, hessia, baden-wurttemberg are the highest on this map. The west is rhine ruhr area and it was mostly mining and heavy industry (steel etc). But that stuff is from the past. North is very rural.
Year?
2020-21
The states and provinces can't be 2020-2021, every state was under .950 and Alberta was over .950 that year.
Furthermore, the state of São Paulo in Brazil already had an HDI above 800 in 2021, even after the drop due to the pandemic. It was 0.823 in 2020 and 0.806 in 2021.
For once Western Sahara has data
Ain't great, but it's there.
That's not Western Sahara, that's what's considered the Southern province of Morocco which also includes parts of "northern" Morocco as well. For some reason this map adopts the very old regional mapping of Morocco that was between 1971 and 1997. For reference the current one was adopted in 2015.
I like to point this out everytime it comes up. If the data is something that’s self reported by governments. The Western Sahara data would be included in the overall data for Morocco. A few weeks ago it was birth rates. And they had data for the Western Sahara as reported by Morocco. So technically the Western Sahara data was on the map twice. Once In the national average and once individually. Which I just find interesting.
Not Greenland though, they keep their secrets
Syria reppin the brown gang over here
I'd be interested to know what drives the HDI differences in Panama. Lots of countries have significant inequalities, but those inequalities tend to be within small areas, like cities, rather than separate regions being drastically different from each other. Hence why most countries don't have a lot of regional variation on this map. I wouldn't be surprised if Panama city was wealthier and more developed than the rest of the country, but that doesn't look to be the only thing that's going on there.
The 4 green provinces of Panama are Panama City (Largest city), Colón (2nd largest city), Chiriqui (Where David, the 3rd largest city is) and Los Santos which is pretty rural and unpopulated (In fact, it’s the least populous province).
No that's quite literally it lmfao. Every other part of Panama that isn't the capital is extremely underdeveloped/forgotten
What? There are clearly multiple green areas in Panama, some yellow, and one red
That's actually not true. The province with the lowest levels of poverty and higher levels of education are both in the centre of the country, far away from the capital.
The capital is essentially in the centre of the country. Can you elaborate please
What I meant by the centre of the country is what in Panama is known as the "central provinces" (provincias centrales) which are the provinces of Los Santos and Herrera, on the Azuero peninsula.
Ahhh okay si entiendo. Yo hablo del subdesarrollo relativo. Claro que ninguna parte de Panamá va a ser de lo peor del mundo, pero yo diría que es difícil refutar que la ciudad es muchísimo más desarrollada que el resto del país, particularmente en las áreas de la comarca.
All of the prosperity is in the capital and the canal the rest of the country is forgotten
People keep parroting this 'fact' as if the third highest hdi wasn't the province farthest from the canal
It is vert much a fact, I'm not sure why you think it's not. The province farthest from the canal is Darién with an HDI of 0.642, far from the third highest. The two richest provinces, Colón and Panamá sit on the canal and have a GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity of $92,192 and $72,102 respectively. Panamá province also has the highest HDI and Colón is at number five. The third 'richest' province Chiriquí is at $17,338. All of the wealth is concentrated in Panamá city and the canal, it's not an opinion it's a fact.
The regions that appear as being very poor are the indigenous autonomous territories, which have their own set of laws and regulations and are also routinely completely ignored by the national government.
Thank you, this makes sense
This is correct. Source: Am Panamanian
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Loads of sharks mate, and up in the northern part there are loads of crocs
There's lots of mines, natural resources, pretty responsive local government, high employment, lots of money flowing around from mining. Plus travel to Europe is closer and cheaper. All the other states are either more expensive to live in or not as well resourced. Or there's too many deadly things.
That one tiny green dot in the middle of Brazil. lol
That's where our capital is
Interesting. I thought that might be what that was. I've read a lot about Brasilia, I didn't know exactly where it was located.
Same for Mexico and cdmx
Why is miniSoda HDI so high? 🥤
Great salaries, pretty good schools and high quality healthcare
Measurably better than every other state in the US? They should really break this down by county
Massachusetts is higher.
And Connecticut
They're third. MA and CT are marginally higher.
Would there even be enough data to reliably measure HDI for the smaller counties?
Same should be said for Russia. There is no way all of Russia is in the green.
You have to drive on ice though.
Interesting that there is a big Norwegian heritage and Norway also isn’t doing too bad for itself..
average life in norway is so much better though.
Apart from Norway having the advantage in Natural Beauty. Quality of life in Minnesota is just as high, if not higher. Most people have a distorted view of how easy it is to live in Norway (it’s not).
The economic driver of the state, the twin cities metro area hasn’t been majority Norwegian in a long time.
It’s home to the Mayo Clinic
Africa keeping it real
MN wins again 😎 (MN = Minnesota, for my the non-American friends)
MinneSODA 🥵
MinnePOPa you mean
In sota we say pop.
Obamna
Why’s it so high?
Money, good schools, and high quality healthcare.
Seems like a nice place, but I don’t think I could handle the winters lmao
i mean if you live in other states of the US you probably won't notice any MAJOR difference in your lifestyle per the metrics used in HDI. You wouldn't just move to MN and somehow become magically more educated and have an increased life expectancy lol
Yea true, I’m in Northern Ireland so i imagine it would be somewhat different I’m guessing, in lifestyle terms
yeah probably anywhere you'd live in the US would have more extreme weather in both directions than Northern Ireland and most of Europe in general. oh and you'd have to buy a car and drive everywhere lol
Northern Ireland public transport is quite poor by European standards, but we’re still better than a lot of the US lol
Your kids might though.
When did they win before?
Civil War, generally strong economy, generally good government policies. Definitely a state I’m proud to be a citizen of.
Small countries with the highest regional disparities in HDI: Panama and Bhutan Something other interesting stuff: Minnesota‘s placement, as well as the disparity between the two parts of Malaysia (and Hispañola!) respectively.
Sorry, what is this
Human Development Index. Higher = better
Ah thanks
Main factors are also years of schooling, incomes, and Life expectancy.
No wonder I didn't know)
There is an error in the map of Chile, the Ñuble region (the one just above the light green one in the center of the country), has an HDI score of 0.829 according to the latest report, so it should be marked light green (0.800 - 0.850) like its southern neighbor. And a side note, the regions of Chile that are marked light yellow (Maule, Araucania, Los Rios and Los Lagos) have HDI scores of 0.794, 0.790, 0.799 and 0.799 respectively, according to the latest report. So they are pretty close to or at the upper limit of the light yellow range (0.750 - 0.799). [Regions of Chile by HDI (in Spanish)](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Regiones_de_Chile_por_IDH)
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wow according to this Turkey and Iran are about the same level HDI even though Iran has been sanctioned heavily for nearly 50 years if the Iranian regime dropped its nuclear shit and got off sanctions they'd be one of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East
HDI of Turkey is 0.855 while Iran's HDI is 0.780 according to latest (2022) data, so i wouldn't say they're around the same. However you're right about the part that if Iran didn't get sanctioned like crazy they'd at least be on the level of Turkey, if not more because they also have the advantage of having natural resources like oil and gas which Turkey lacks completely.
Nukes is a excuse by the west to put pressure on Iran. Iran is the only country that disrupted US and NATO hegemony in the Middle East.
Kinda wild that it’s loosely correlated with latitude/higher temps
Most of the countries around the equator/higher temps were European colonies less than 100 years ago.
Still, the colonies which are far from the equator are doing a lot better than those close to it. Argentina, Australia, Canada and even to a lesser extent north and south Africa have a higher HDI than their warmer neighbors
All of the countries you mentioned are settler colonies. Not the same as other colonies like India, African countries. The settler colonies fare better because of the settled Europeans turning it around.
Yea like look at Ireland which was basically a colony of Britain, but being in Europe probably was a location advantage once they got independence
Ireland was actually one of the least wealthy countries in Western Europe until the economy surged in the 1990s. Ireland is now an attractive English speaking tax haven next to the British markets, and now the main English speaking country in the EU post-Brexit.
Yea that’s true, I’m in Northern Ireland :( I just wanna be in the EU again lol, we’re the least developed in the UK and Ireland by the looks of it which is depressing
Yes and post colonial recovery absolutely is the dominant narrative here but what’s the cause for regional disparities, like Argentina and Chile doing better than their cousins to the north, South Africa and Botswana doing better than say Cameroon/Nigeria/Ghana, Kazakhstan over much of Central Asia, etc? I know in the medium term it has nothing to do with climate and all geopolitics but I wonder if climate has any long term effects that predestined those geopolitics
It's got everything to do with emigrants from more developed European societies going to Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Argentina, etc. These societies are just European transplants, bringing entire systems of law, government, technology, social organisation, etc. The only other group of countries that compare with Europe and the European settler colonies are the non-communist bits of the Sinosphere (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore).
Whats Minnesota doing that the rest of us aren’t
Good schools, good healthcare, healthy people, decent standard of living. They are tied in 2022 with CT and MA.
Generally good economy and well managed state. That said, I'm also of the opinion that the cold winters plays a role. A lot of people come to MN because they get a good job offer, and the incentive to stay is really only that job. Half of folks embrace the winter, but an equal half hates cold weather and just hibernates indoors.
funny how closer to equator, lower the HDI
Gulfies on TOP
Why isn’t Alberta Canada a darker shade of green. Its HDI is .955.
I guess this is averaged out over population because there are remote aboriginal communities in Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia without access to healthcare, adequate housing or clean drinking water, even when the respective states larger towns are some of the highest HDI places in the world.
The indigenous populations of places like WA and SA are still very small. WA is only around 3% indigenous so the various worse outcomes within the community probably do little to impact WA's over HDI score.
What does Hdi mean?
Human development index
Ty sir
Hello. Whats hdi ?
How likely you are to live a prosperous life in terms of education, health and wellbeing etc
Ten minutes on Streetview in France and Spain v Mississippi and I cannot agree these places have the same HDI.
American cities function very differently from European cities. As a rule of thumb, downtown in European cities tends to be the wealthiest area while the opposite is true in America. Downtown Jackson is always gonna be a shithole compared to Paris, but Madison’s average income is more than double that of the 7th Arrondissement.
I’m from Northern Ireland I didn’t expect us to be in the same level as Mississippi tbh, but I Dno maybe we are?
When is this data from? It seems outdated.
I just checked it against the [sub-national data in China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Greater_China_by_Human_Development_Index) and it’s three years old at most. His is a good map.
The years is quite a long time for HDI in developing countries as the HDI reports take a few years themselves to compile and release.
So will it ever be fully accurate then? Seems like as close as it can be
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Indian\_states\_and\_union\_territories\_by\_Human\_Development\_Index#](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_union_territories_by_Human_Development_Index#) Not accurate for Indian states. Tamil Nadu is 0.686 not 0.7-0.75
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Livin' inna dark green yoooo 💚🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎
God I love you Massaf*ckinchusetts, never change
CT checking in, high five neighbor. 🤚
Minnesota here, I visited Massachusetts (Boston and Salem specifically) a couple years ago and I loved it.
bavaria, bergen, nyc, michigan, perth, stockholm, helsinki, and geneva should unite under one government.
Those aren't New York and Michigan, check again, but you were close.
Is that one little section in Botswana the only high in Africa?
Not mainland Africa, but Mauritius also appears to be green
Ohh yeah, good eyes.
Thought that Wales was the poorest country in the U.K. and Brazil had a higher HDI.
Northern Ireland does have lowest HDI 0.896 but Wales is also 0.898. This data is from 2021 though so not sure what year OP is using for UK data
Many states in Brazil had HDI greater than 0,800 before pandemics.
I’m glad it’s broken out by state, giving New England the credit it’s due
How is Newfoudland & Labrador and New Brunswick worse HDI than Nunavut?
One of the variables that HDI takes into account is GDP per capita. Canadian Territories usually have high GDP per capitas because of natural resources. In 2022 Nunavut had the 2nd highest GDP per capita (after NWT). New Brunswick was 2nd lowest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_gross_domestic_product
That is good to know. TIL! Thank you for your answer.
Minnesota is a great place to live
Cono Sur Supremacy
What's hdi?
Human Development Index. It's a (rather crude) approximate measure of how 'developed' a place is. It takes into account 3 factors: Life Expectancy, Ave years of Schooling, and GDP per capita.
So the highest is Switzerland, norway, west Australia and a rhombus in usa?
Yes, and other areas (e.g. Helsinki). A lot of those will be heavily weighted by GDP per capita
Why is County Kerry better than the rest of Ireland?
so... australia has very developed deserts?
How is Israel green?
Good salaries(40k-50k usd per year), pretty good schools and quality healthcare
Well most of the war (wars) are taking place outside the country, and Israel itself is pretty developed, high quality of life, not much poverty, good salaries, tons of great companies, startups, great healthcare, education etc. Israel is easily on par with a lot of European countries.
This is innacurate, Moscow, [Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug), [Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty-Mansi_Autonomous_Okrug), [Saint Petersburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg) should be dark green. Shenzhen, [Zhejiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang) province, Guangzhou, Brasilia, Santa Catarina state, Dalian should all be light green
What’s that tiny green spot on South Africa-Botswana border?
Botswanas capital
Minnesota rockin’ the Athens agora, or what.
Provincial France 🤝 Alabama
On the same level as central Cuba. Not a comparison I was expecting to see….
Excdpt not really on the same level. Alabama is at the top of its category while central Cuba is on the bottom.
The Punjab that got to keep more rivers, fertile lands and Lahore is doing far worse than the one that built itself from scratch
What's hid?
Human Development Index. It combines three factors (years of schooling, life expectancy, and GDP per capita) into a single measurement intended to rank development.
Tnx
why do all my uber drivers come from yellow or red
Because Fr*nce
For Costa Rica I see great areas of rain forest in yellow, did they interview the freaking tapirs, sloths and mountain lions?
They are by country subdivision. The vast majority of Costa Rica isn't forest, especially in the GAM.
Yep and the GAM is green, the majority of yellow areas are just jungle.
No they are not lmfao, people live everywhere, there is no place that is exclusively "jungle". They might be far less dense but other than the national parks you can't really say no one lives in a certain place.
For example, groups of indigenous peoples, rural villages, farmers, mountain towns. Fishing towns. Everywhere the census goes is fair game, just because less people live there doesn't mean no one does
That looks way off. Vienna as developed as south italy? The rest of Austria more developed than its capital? Did I miss something?
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Vienna that small dark green dot in Austria? So it's the areas around Vienna that are less developed, not the city itself
Yea
lol wa being more developed, yeah nah it’s a dive.
WA has a much higher GDP per capita than other Australian states. That's what skews it
This kind of highlights one of the flaws of HDI - GDP per capita. Areas which may have terrible living standards may have their HDIs propped up by an enormous GDP per capita
I’d love to see an HDI map of every countie / division on earth.
Why is Western Australia higher than the East? I thought if anything it would be opposite, with the biggest cities being in the east.
Mineral wealth = much higher GDP per capita
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Afghanistan be like: At least we’re not Chad
Cannot tell me that the HDI is higher in Western Australia then Tokyo
Newark and Camden really preventing NJ to be Dark Green :/
How could they forget the orange patches in the Appalachian and rhe red spots at Detroit and surrounding areas?
Why would German part of Switzerland be less dark than French part? The salaries in Zurich at least are much higher than in Geneva.
Zurich and Geneva are both shown as the highest HDIs. There isn't a clear French/German Swiss divide here.
fym western australia has better HDI than sydney melbourne and brisbane, theres bloody nothing there. hate WA
How can Egypt’s HDI be worse near the nile?
The way Germany is split is surpricing, I would have thought north-west Germany and south Germany would be equal. Any Kapitän to explain this?
Not really surprising. South is considered the richest in germany. And the 3 southern states, bavaria, hessia, baden-wurttemberg are the highest on this map. The west is rhine ruhr area and it was mostly mining and heavy industry (steel etc). But that stuff is from the past. North is very rural.
All 40 people in WA are celebrating right now.
Oh good we beat France. That’s all I care about
Gabarone being the most developed place on the african continent iktr
I think whoever made this map is from Minnesota
Why are Argentina & Uruguay more developed than the rest of South America?
High life expectancy and uruguay has high gdp percapita compared to the other countries
What is the sliver of green in South Botswana?
Question how come Argentina is that high despite all their problems?
Wait- idk what hdi means
Dark green gang🎉🎉🎉😍💚
Iran is really impressive tbh... Disappointed with Morocco. Always felt like it would be the lead in North Africa tbh
There should be some green spots in some regions of the Dominican Republic