Human development index — all countries

Human development index — Somalia

Human development index in Somalia in 2023 — 0.404 index. Ranked 192 in the world out of 193. Since 2022, the indicator has risen by 4.9%.

2023 0.404 index +4.94% vs 2022
World rank 192of 193
Period maximum 0.404 index2023
Period minimum 0.385 index2022

Trend over time

2022–2023 · index, 0–1

Human development index — Somalia, 2022–20230.3850.390.3950.40.405202220232022: 0.385 index2023: 0.404 index
Change over the period: +0.019 (+4.94%) Average annual rate: 4.94 %

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Somalia

Somalia 0.404 index
World 0.756 index
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 0.547 index
Eastern Africa computed 0.532 index
Low-income countries computed 0.497 index
Human development index — Somalia, by year Somalia All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2023 0.404 +0.019 +4.94%
2022 0.385

About the indicator

The UNDP Human Development Index is the geometric mean of three components: life expectancy, years of schooling and national income per capita at PPP. The index was devised as an objection to the use of GDP alone as a measure of development, and its point is that the three components are multiplied rather than added: a failure on any one of them cannot be made up for by success on the other two. Values run from zero to one, and since 1990 the index has risen in almost every country in the world.

Important: The aggregate value for country groups is weighted by population, whereas UNDP computes group indexes from group components — the numbers may therefore differ slightly from the report.

Source: Human Development Report (UNDP), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.