Question: Does a high ranking on the HDI indicate shorter or longer life expectancy at birth?
Answer: longer

Question: In what year did the Human Development Report introduce the IHDI?
Answer: 2010

Question: What does IHDI stand for?
Answer: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index

Question: Which measures the potential development, the HDI or the IHDI?
Answer: the IHDI

Question: Which measures the potential development, the HDI or the IHDI?
Answer: the HDI

Question: In what year did Mahbub ul Haq devise and launch the HDI?
Answer: 1990

Question: Who was initially opposed to the idea of creating the HDI?
Answer: Amartya Sen

Question: Mahbub ul Haq was hoping to shift the focus of development economics to what type of policies?
Answer: people-centered policies

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2011 report?
Answer: 1990

Question: What does LE stand for?
Answer: Life expectancy at birth

Question: What does MYS stand for?
Answer: Mean years of schooling

Question: What does EYS stand for?
Answer: Expected years of schooling

Question: What does GNIpc stand for?
Answer: Gross national income at purchasing power parity per capita

Question: What entity makes the defining formula for the HDI well-known?
Answer: the United Nations Development Programme

Question: On what date was the 2015 Human Development Report released?
Answer: December 14, 2015

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2015 report?
Answer: 2014

Question: On what date was the 2014 Human Development Report released?
Answer: July 24, 2014

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2014 report?
Answer: 2013

Question: What does the IHDI specifically take into account?
Answer: Inequality

Question: Does the IHDI measure the "average" or the "potential" level of human development? 
Answer: the average level

Question: Which Caribbean nation is in the top quartile of HDI (but missing IHDI)?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Is the top quartile of HDI considered "high" or "very high" human development?
Answer: very high

Question: What is the main reason that countries were excluded from the 2014 report?
Answer: lack of necessary data

Question: Which East Asian dictatorship was excluded from the 2014 report?
Answer: North Korea

Question: On what date was the 2013 Human Development Report released?
Answer: March 14, 2013

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2013 report?
Answer: 2012

Question: Does the IHDI measure the "average" or the "potential" level of human development?
Answer: the average level

Question: Which Caribbean nation is in the top quartile of HDI (but missing IHDI)?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2011 report?
Answer: 2011

Question: What is the main reason that countries were excluded from the 2011 report?
Answer: unavailability of certain crucial data

Question: Which East Asian dictatorship was excluded from the 2011 report?
Answer: North Korea

Question: On what date was the 2010 Human Development Report released?
Answer: November 4, 2010

Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2010 report?
Answer: 2010

Question: In the IHDI, inequality is factored into what three human development dimensions?
Answer: income, life expectancy, and education

Question: What is the main reason that countries were excluded from the 2010 report?
Answer: unavailability of certain crucial data

Question: Which Caribbean nation protested its exclusion from the 2010 report?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What ranking has Cuba been given since the situation with the missing data was addressed?
Answer: High Human Development country

Question: On what date was the 2009 Human Development Report released?
Answer: October 5, 2009

Question: What period is covered by the 2009 Human Development Report?
Answer: period up to 2007

Question: What was another title for the 2009 Human Development Report?
Answer: Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development

Question: What new category was added in the 2009 Human Development Report?
Answer: very high human development

Question: How does the 2009 Human Development Report refer to countries that rank "very high"?
Answer: developed countries

Question: What three reasons were mentioned for countries being excluded?
Answer: being a non-UN member or unable or unwilling to provide the necessary data at the time of publication

Question: What type of update was released on December 18, 2008?
Answer: statistical update

Question: What was the index published on December 18, 2008 lacking?
Answer: an accompanying Human Development Report

Question: What period was covered by the statistical update index released in December of 2008?
Answer: up to 2006

Question: On what date was the 2007/2008 Human Development Report released?
Answer: November 27, 2007

Question: What was the focus of the 2007/2008 Human Development Report?
Answer: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

Question: What is the most recent year that was included in the 2007/2008 Human Development Report?
Answer: 2005

Question: The HDI in the 2007/2008 Human Development Report is for what year?
Answer: 2005

Question: Where was the 2007/2008 Human Development Report launched?
Answer: Brasília, Brazil

Question: Which countries experienced a decrease in HDI?
Answer: high income countries

Question: Under what number does a country need to fall in order to be considered a "low development" country?
Answer: 0.5

Question: On which continent are all 22 of the low development countries located?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is Gabon's ranking?
Answer: 119th

Question: What is South Africa's ranking?
Answer: 121st

Question: What are the two highest ranking Sub-Saharan countries?
Answer: Gabon and South Africa

Question: What number indicates the minimum score for a country to be considered a "high development" country?
Answer: 0.8

Question: Which South American country was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the largest country that was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Russia

Question: If there is a decrease in a country's ranking, which indicator will be present?
Answer: red arrows

Question: If there is an increase in a country's ranking, which indicator will be present?
Answer: green arrows

Question: If a country's ranking does not change, which indicator will be present?
Answer: Blue dash

Question: Which country has been ranked highest the most number of times?
Answer: Norway

Question: Which country has received the top rank twice?
Answer: Iceland

Question: The HDI has been criticized for focusing exclusively on what?
Answer: national performance and ranking

Question: Has the HDI been criticized for being biased towards Western or towards Eastern models of development?
Answer: Western

Question: The HDI has been criticized for lack of what type of perspective on development?
Answer: global

Question: Critics of the HDI cite its focus on which: egalitarianism or authoritarianism?
Answer: egalitarianism

Question: How many economists were cited as pointing out data errors in the HDI?
Answer: three

Question: In what year did the UNDP respond to the criticism of its report?
Answer: 2010

Question: Which magazine publication carried a statement from the Human Development Report Office in January, 2011?
Answer: The Economist

Question: How many countries were included in the 2009 HDI?
Answer: 182

Question: How many countries were included in the 2010 HDI?
Answer: 169

Question: What is another term for southern Europe
Answer: Mediterranean Europe

Question: What is the name for the stretch of land on which Spain and Portugal are located?
Answer: Iberian peninsula

Question: What nations are sometimes included in the scope of southern Europe?
Answer: Balkan countries

Question: What area of France is considered a part of Mediterranean Europe?
Answer: southern France