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The Center for Global Development has a tool that ranks rich countries' commitment to the developing world . This Commitment to Developm...

Going above and beyond the call of duty, Mark Sadowski has also created his own human development index. The Advanced Nation Human Developm...

EDIT : The original post reflected an error in the data on education. The map below has been corrected. The human development index , which ...

The American Human Development Project has some other tools beyond their Human Development Index that help to make sense of the geography ...

The site for the UN's Human Development Report has maps that show the (somewhat) shifting geography of development over the past few de...

All right, forgive me, but it seems that I'm not quite done with this whole human development index thing. I've come across another...

Via Strange Maps , Thumb has this poster which overlays ring roads from around the world: According to Thumb, "This poster is designe...

Well, Justin Wolfers at Freakonomics has now chimed in on the the HDI debate. He refers to Andrew Gelman's observation that the fake d...

Well, well. So my post comparing HDI scores of US states to foreign countries has gone a bit viral. It got picked up by Catherine Rampell a...

I'm just gonna keep on keeping on with this intranational HDI comparison kick. Today: China! There's obviously a huge range in the ...

I wanted to see if other wealthy countries were similar to the US in having a region within their borders that doesn't really live up to...

That map of states by human development index score reminded me of something. Remember this New York Times map of voting shifts from 2004 ...

EDIT WITH HUGE DISCLAIMER : The US HDI is not at all comparable to the world HDI. The data which this map represent are not, in fact based o...