Human Development Report 2020: Briefing Note for Countries — Haiti
Summary: Haiti's country note for the 2020 Human Development Report, whose theme was the next frontier of human development and the Anthropocene. It records Haiti's 2019 HDI at 0.510, placing it in the low human development category and 170th of 189 countries and territories, a rank shared with Sudan, and sets out the methodology and coverage: HDI for 189 countries, IHDI for 152, GDI for 167, GII for 162 and MPI for 107, with the series recalculated from consistent data for 1990 to 2019 so that comparison with earlier reports' rankings is not valid.
Key Findings
- Puts Haiti's HDI at 0.510 for 2019, placing it in the low human development category.
- Records the HDI rising from 0.414 in 1990 to its 2019 value, so the note carries the full three-decade series rather than a single year.
- Covers 189 countries and territories in the 2020 report, with the inequality-adjusted HDI available for 152.
- Cautions that comparing values and rankings against previously published reports is a source of error because of revisions, so only the consistent-series table shows real change over time.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2020: Briefing Note for Countries — Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/undp-2020-hdr-note-information-haiti