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The Human Development Index of 189 countries is compiled by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the annual Human Development Report. The index considers the health, education and income in a given country to provide a measure of human development which is comparable between countries and over time. The Human Development Index (HDI) was first published in 1990 with the goal of being a more comprehensive measure of human development than purely economic measures such as gross domestic product. The index incorporates three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent living standards. Various indicators are used to quantify how countries perform on each dimension. The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index each with a value between 0 and 1 which are combined to create the HDI. The data used to calculate HDI comes mostly from United Nations agencies and international institutions. The HDI is the most widely used indicator of human development and changed how people view the concept. (Full list...)