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Human Development Report 2011

Sustainability and Equity:
A Better Future for All
Explanatory note on 2011 HDR composite indices

Chile
HDI values and rank changes in the 2011 Human Development Report

Introduction
The 2011 Human Development Report presents 2011 Human Development Index (HDI) values and ranks
for 187 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with theInequality-adjusted HDI for 134 countries,
the Gender Inequality Index for 146 countries, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index for 109 countries.
Country rankings and values in the annual Human Development Index (HDI) are kept under strict
embargo until the global launch and worldwide electronic release of the Human Development Report.
The 2011 Report will be launched globally in November 2011.
It ismisleading to compare values and rankings with those of previously published reports, because the
underlying data and methods have changed, as well as the number of countries included in the HDI. The
187 countries ranked in the 2011 HDI represents a significant increase from the 169 countries included in
the 2010 Index, when key indicators for many countries were unavailable.
Readers are advisedin the Report to assess progress in HDI values by referring to Table 2 (‘Human
Development Index Trends’) in the Statistical Annex of the report. Table 2 is based on consistent
indicators, methodology and time-series data and thus shows real changes in values and ranks over time
reflecting the actual progress countries have made.
For further details on how each index is calculated please referto Technical Notes 1-4 in the 2011 Report
and the associated background papers available on the Human Development Report website.

Human Development Index (HDI)
The HDI is a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human
development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. As in the
2010 HDR a long and healthy lifeis measured by life expectancy, access to knowledge is measured by: i)
mean years of adult education, which is the average number of years of education received in a life-time
by people aged 25 years and older; and ii) expected years of schooling for children of school-entrance
age, which is the total number of years of schooling a child of school-entrance age can expect to receive
ifprevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates stay the same throughout the child's life. Standard of
living is measured by Gross National Income (GNI) per capita expressed in constant 2005 PPP$.
To ensure as much cross-country comparability as possible, the HDI is based primarily on international
data from the UN Population Division, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the World Bank. Asstated in the introduction, the HDI values and ranks in this year’s report are not comparable to those in
past reports (including the 2010 HDR) because of a number of revisions done to the component
indicators by the mandated agencies. To allow for assessment of progress in HDIs, the 2011 report
includes recalculated HDIs from 1980 to 2011.

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Chile’s HDI value and rank
Chile’s HDIvalue for 2011 is 0.805—in the very high human development category—positioning the
country at 44 out of 187 countries and territories. Between 1980 and 2011, Chile’s HDI value increased
from 0.630 to 0.805, an increase of 28.0 per cent or average annual increase of about 0.8 per cent.
The rank of Chile’s HDI for 2010 based on data available in 2011 and methods used in 2011 is 44 out of
187countries. In the 2010 HDR, Chile was ranked 45 out of 169 countries. However, it is misleading to
compare values and rankings with those of previously published reports, because the underlying data and
methods have changed, as well as the number of countries included in the HDI.
Table A reviews Chile’s progress in each of the HDI indicators. Between 1980 and 2011, Chile’s life
expectancy at...