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Human development index — Timor-Leste

Human development index in Timor-Leste in 2023 — 0.634 index. Ranked 142 in the world out of 193. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 25%.

2023 0.634 index +0.16% vs 2022
World rank 142of 193
Period maximum 0.655 index2011
Period minimum 0.507 index2000

Trend over time

2000–2023 · index, 0–1

Human development index — Timor-Leste, 2000–20230.50.550.60.650.72000200320062009201220152018202120232000: 0.507 index2001: 0.521 index2002: 0.534 index2003: 0.534 index2004: 0.547 index2005: 0.564 index2006: 0.588 index2007: 0.609 index2008: 0.634 index2009: 0.631 index2010: 0.645 index2011: 0.655 index2012: 0.65 index2013: 0.646 index2014: 0.637 index2015: 0.628 index2016: 0.618 index2017: 0.621 index2018: 0.624 index2019: 0.642 index2020: 0.65 index2021: 0.644 index2022: 0.633 index2023: 0.634 index
Change over the period: +0.127 (+25.05%) Average annual rate: 0.98 %

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste 0.634 index
World 0.756 index
East Asia & Pacific computed 0.789 index
South-Eastern Asia computed 0.732 index
Lower-middle-income countries computed 0.664 index
Human development index — Timor-Leste, by year Timor-Leste All countries CSV XLSX
Year index Change Change, %
2023 0.634 +0.001 +0.16%
2022 0.633 −0.011 −1.71%
2021 0.644 −0.006 −0.92%
2020 0.65 +0.008 +1.25%
2019 0.642 +0.018 +2.88%
2018 0.624 +0.003 +0.48%
2017 0.621 +0.003 +0.49%
2016 0.618 −0.01 −1.59%
2015 0.628 −0.009 −1.41%
2014 0.637 −0.009 −1.39%
2013 0.646 −0.004 −0.62%
2012 0.65 −0.005 −0.76%
2011 0.655 +0.01 +1.55%
2010 0.645 +0.014 +2.22%
2009 0.631 −0.003 −0.47%
2008 0.634 +0.025 +4.11%
2007 0.609 +0.021 +3.57%
2006 0.588 +0.024 +4.26%
2005 0.564 +0.017 +3.11%
2004 0.547 +0.013 +2.43%
2003 0.534 +0 +0%
2002 0.534 +0.013 +2.5%
2001 0.521 +0.014 +2.76%
2000 0.507 — —

South-Eastern Asia, 2023

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

SG Singapore 0.946 BN Brunei Darussalam 0.837 MY Malaysia 0.819 TH Thailand 0.798 VN Vietnam 0.766 ID Indonesia 0.728 PH Philippines 0.72 TL Timor-Leste 0.634 LA Laos 0.617 MM Myanmar 0.609 KH Cambodia 0.606
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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.

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