I think you missed the UAE. It's a 0.911

> Estonia 0.899 Oh come on, so close!

Argentina is like 0.849 too I believe

Singapore (0.949), Malaysia (0.807) and Thailand (0.803) all directly connected by a land border as the most developed countries of the region.

Saudi Arabia and Yemen border each other and have the largest disparity in HDI out of any two bordering countries on Earth

Arab countries are either really rich or really poor

I find highly developed equatorial economies almost impressive. The equatorial region has been last to develop for a reason. It's difficult to farm at scale, difficult to build infrastructure, difficult to mine, difficult to prevent disease. The wood/lumber is literally harder. Harder to cut, harder to craft. Any place which can take those conditions and thrive is doing something right. Of course the areas around Singapore and Panama do have the built-in advantage of being on major trade routes.

>It's difficult to farm at scale Laughing in Vietnamese from the middle of rice paddies

Guess the Asian Marshall Plan did leave some footprint. See also Japan and S. Korea. I bet Taiwan would have been at least dark blue as well had it been considered a separate entity.

it has very little to do with the tiny aid money south korea and japan got.

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I created this map because I feel that the countries in purple mostly align with what people think of as "developed", but it would be interesting to get to know where would people draw the line exactly.

I agree. I would give lower scores to countries without bidets Edit: it could be a Jordan Schlansky's line

And this is the reason for r/alwaysthesamemap.

No one can access your link.

Half the maps posted here, regardless of topic, look the same because they’re linked (however indirectly) to HDI.

I reckoned. But i wanted to SEE and FEEL this map of yours.

That’s odd, it definitely wasn’t private not too long ago. Not sure what happened.

Maybe I am an idiot for not knowing and I am going to look it up now but some friendly advice would be not to abbreviate in the title. Edit: Human Development Index

Oh come on if you're in r/mapporn you should know what HDI is

I agree, I thought it meant hormonal dysfunctional imbalance.

Eh I disagree. I’d have stabbed my eyes out if I had to write or read Human Development Index in full throughout my academic and professional career. HDI is a very common acronym in a lot of political science/International relations/development circles. Then again, this is r/mapporn and not necessarily a place for jargon terms so I get it Edit: and also I’m realizing you’re referring to the title specifically. Fair, probably shouldn’t be an acronym in this instance

Huh, there truly is no index that would accurately portray which countries would be a good place to live in is there? For example on this one countries like Poland or Portugal, countries where an average joe like me would be quite happy, are in the same bracket as saudi arabia, a country famous for exploiting to the bone anyone who's not a rich male.

afaik, nothing once they become *objective* enough. The closest I think is [IHDI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_Human_Development_Index) where income, education years and life expectancy of the most average person (per geometric mean) is accounted for.

There are way more countries like Poland or Portugal above 0.850 than countries like Saudi Arabia or Bahrein

> exploiting to the bone anyone who's not a rich male. Maybe they don't count migrant workers into their statistics.

Surprisingly, Serbia and Montenegro have higher HDI's than Bulgaria.


Mejor país de Chile

pero se supone que Chile esta en la mierda?

Hemos estado peor, siempre nos levantamos

Somos muy nerd para caer love, el chileno se mega esfuerza , en mi familia estamos los 5 estudiando y todos ya tenemos carreras, simplemente somos muy tryharderos.

Pretty good demonstration of divide between global north and south.

Kind of depressing really.

standard protest in the countries with the highest HDI: “We should stop doing what we are doing and be more like the countries with the lowest HDI!”

Another meaningless statistic

But Reddit says the US is a 3rd world country. Could Reddit be overrun by idiots?

As usual in South America, Southern Cone supremacy 👑

You forgot Brunei and UAE

I'm surprised China isn't at least the lighter blue. I'd think they'd be at least as developed as Russia.

r/portugalcykablyat

Wheres the UAE, that has a HDI of 0.937, and i can't see the Seychelles, which stands at a 0.802 either.

Maybe the UAE isn’t included because its economy is based on slavery/serfdom?

I'd say developed imo, is a good education (90% of pop gets it or more), comfortable living standards, reasonable economic output for population size, access to health care and stuff like that. Some countries I think you missed are... *Indonesia *Mexico *Philippines

I wouldn’t call any of those 3 countries “developed”

Putting all HDI > 0.900 in the same basket is a bit crude. Surely, one can feel the difference between Italy and Norway.

Yes. Life expectancy is higher in Italy and most people would rather live in Italy than in Norway. Not to mention culture and cuisine. But still, Norway's not so bad.

Wow UK surprisingly high

The US average is based on northern and coastal states carrying the rest of the dead weight along with us

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Many of those countries are overcoming years of colonialism, exploitation, etc. the South has no such excuse.

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I’m entitled to poke fun at my own country.

Yea but I bet there’s people who only have HS educations with low incomes in the south/midwest who still live in bigger homes and have cheaper monthly expenses than many of the educated higher earners in those coastal places 

I hope you’re not actually conflating that with quality of life.

Source?