List of Latin American countries by Human Development Index

The following tables covers the list of Latin American and Caribbean countries by Human Development Index as released by the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for regions worldwide.

Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high (for developed countries), high and medium (for developing countries) and low (for least developing countries).

Human Development Index

The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released in 2016). Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in Table 2 of the Statistical Annex of the Human Development Report. The HDI rankings and values in the 2016 Human Development Report cannot therefore be compared directly to HDI rankings and values published in previous Human Development Reports.

Countries in the Americas by Human Development Index (2015)

≥ 0.900   0.850–0.899   0.800–0.849   0.750–0.799   0.700–0.749

0.650–0.699   0.600–0.649   0.550–0.599   0.500–0.549   0.450–0.499

0.400–0.449   ≤ 0.399   Data unavailable

List of Latin American & Caribbean Countries by Human Development Index
Rank		Country	Human Development Index (HDI)
In Region	World		HDI Value		Change in HDI value 2016–17*
			2017	2016
Very High Human Development
1	44	Chile	0.843	0.842	0.001
2	47	Argentina	0.825	0.822	0.003
3	54	Bahamas	0.807	0.806	0.001
4	55	Uruguay	0.804	0.802	0.002
5	58	Barbados	0.800	0.799	0.001
High Human Development
6	63	Costa Rica	0.794	0.791	0.003
7	66	Panama	0.789	0.785	0.004
8	69	Trinidad and Tobago	0.784	0.785	0.001
9	70	Antigua and Barbuda	0.780	0.778	0.002
10	72	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.778	0.774	0.004
11	73	Cuba	0.777	0.774	0.003
12	74	Mexico	0.774	0.772	0.002
13	75	Grenada	0.772	0.770	0.002
14	78	Venezuela	0.761	0.766	0.005
15	79	Brazil	0.759	0.758	0.001
16	86	Ecuador	0.752	0.749	0.003
17	89	Peru	0.750	0.748	0.002
18	90	Colombia	0.747	0.747
18	90	Saint Lucia	0.747	0.745	0.002
20	94	Dominican Republic	0.736	0.733	0.003
21	97	Jamaica	0.732	0.732
22	99	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.723	0.721	0.002
23	100	Suriname	0.720	0.719	0.001
24	103	Dominica	0.715	0.718	0.003
25	106	Belize	0.708	0.709	0.001
26	110	Paraguay	0.702	0.702
Medium Human Development
27	118	Bolivia	0.693	0.689	0.004
28	121	El Salvador	0.674	0.679	0.005
29	124	Nicaragua	0.658	0.657	0.001
30	125	Guyana	0.654	0.652	0.002
31	127	Guatemala	0.650	0.649	0.001
32	133	Honduras	0.617	0.614	0.003
Low Human Development
33	168	Haiti	0.498	0.496	0.002
*Change in HDI value rounded to three decimals

See also

• List of Latin American subnational entities by high Human Development Index
• List of countries by Human Development Index
• List of Latin American countries by population
• Lists of Latin American countries by GDP
• Human Development Index