Catalog / United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office (HDRO)

undp_hdr

United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office (HDRO)

Name: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office (HDRO)
Creator: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)Development IndicatorsSociety & Well-Being

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

8,199

Temporal coverage

1990-12-31 – 2023-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
Required attribution: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://hdr.undp.org
Provider terms: https://hdr.undp.org/copyright-and-terms-use

How to cite

United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office (HDRO). Retrieved from https://hdr.undp.org. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download undp_hdr series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/undp_hdr
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/undp_hdr/undp_hdr.parquet (~1.5 MB). Schema: series_key (string), obs_date date32 (Dec 31 of year), value float64. Keys: {indicator}:{ISO3} from composite CSV, or {prefix}:{iso} from annex XLSX (prefixes hdi/gdi/gii/ihdi/mpi).

Full description

UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) Statistical Annexes — 190+ countries. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO Source: https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/documentation-and-downloads No API key required (direct XLSX download from hdr.undp.org). Coverage: * HDI (Human Development Index), 1990–2023 * GDI (Gender Development Index) * GII (Gender Inequality Index) * IHDI (Inequality-adjusted HDI) * MPI (Multidimensional Poverty Index) * Education Index, Life Expectancy Index, GNI per capita * Mean years of schooling, Expected years of schooling * Life expectancy at birth * GNI per capita (2017 PPP$) Run: python jobs/ingest_undp_hdr.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets