1. Human Development Index
IB Global Politics
UWC Costa Rica

2. The definition
a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development

3. Wealth, Health and Education
Components of HDI
GNI per capita
Life expectancy
Comparing expected years of schooling for current school children and mean years of schooling for adults aged 25
Wealth, Health and Education

5. Evaluating HDI Advantages Disadvantages
Composite indicator containing three elements. Better than just looking at money.
It allows comparison between regions and countries
Has been existence since so allows temporal changes
Allows for analysis of different components
Does not take into account environmental factors e.g. China
Data could be unreliable, incomplete or unavailable
It is an average and does not show internal disparities
Does not measure factors like human rights, gender and corruption
Literacy measurement changed in 2011 so may make literacy comparisons harder