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Human Development Index scores 1980-2014

Lower Mekong countries HDI scores from the United Nations Human Development reports, 2015. Collated for an interactive visualization on the OD Mekong Social development page (https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/social-development/).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category Social development
Language
  • English
Use limitations "All materials provided on this website are copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license." http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/copyright-and-terms-use
Dataset reference date March 28, 2016
Temporal extent's start date January 1, 1980
Temporal extent's end date December 31, 2014
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • Viet Nam
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Thailand
  • Myanmar
Completeness Note that the data are not inclusive for 1980 through 2014. There are ten data points for each country, showing the HDI scores for 1980, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Process Step Full data download taken from http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2015_statistical_annex_tables_all.xls. Raw overall score for five Lower Mekong countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) for ten years from 1980 (1980, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) copied and pasted into new spreadsheet file and saved.
Lineage UNDP Human Development Reports. 2015. Accessed 2 March 2016. http://hdr.undp.org/en/data Country data copied from original download available at: http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2015_statistical_annex_tables_all.xls
Responsible party ODI researcher: David Hill UNDP: Anna Ortubia, HDRO Communications Officer, (anna.ortubia@undp.org), +1-212-906-5964
Attributes Excel spreadsheet with two tabs, one containing data and one with notes and sources.
License CC-BY-4.0
Copyright No
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Date uploaded April 16, 2016, 04:28 (UTC)
Date modified April 16, 2016, 04:43 (UTC)