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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infancy. 2015 May 19;20(4):353–376. doi: 10.1111/infa.12086

Table 1.

Country, sample sizes, and HDI scores

Countries n HDI
High HDI
Trinidad and Tobago 602 .833
Montenegro 516 .822
Serbia 2,000 .821
Belarus 1,779 .817
Macedonia 2,147 .808
Albania 546 .807
Kazakhstan 2,472 .807
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1,710 .802
Medium HDI
Thailand 5,400 .786
Ukraine 1,651 .786
Belize 425 .771
Jamaica 785 .771
Suriname 1,155 .770
Georgia 1,076 .763
Syrian Arab Republic 5,443 .736
Guyana 1,257 .725
Mongolia 2,091 .720
Vietnam 1,497 .718
Uzbekistan 2,756 .701
Kyrgyzstan 1,584 .694
Vanuatu 928 .686
Tajikistan 2,238 .684
Laos 2,189 .608
Yemen 1,906 .567
Mauritania 4,747 .557
Ghana 1,900 .533
Bangladesh 17,055 .524
Cameroon 3,510 .514
Djibouti 1,095 .513
Low HDI
Nigeria 9,058 .499
Togo 2,406 .479
Gambia 3,977 .471
Côte d' Ivoire 4,996 .431
Guinea-Bissau 3,431 .383
Burundi 3,687 .382
Burkina Faso 3,219 .372
Mozambique 6,497 .366
Central African Republic 5,205 .352
Sierra Leone 2,954 .329

Note. HDI scores are reproduced from UNDP (2008).