Question

13.State the three differences between human development index and human poverty index.

Answer 1

Human Development Index or “HDI” is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. Used to: rank countries into four tiers of human development. As per & data: Norway was the1st.

Human Poverty Index or “HPI” an indication of the standard of living in a country, developed by the United Nations (UN) to complement the Human Development Index (HDI) and was first reported as part of the Human Development Report in. It was considered to better reflect the extent of deprivation in developed countries compared to the HDI.