Table 1.

Benchmark and CEE countries ranked by the 2012 Human Development Index

Benchmark countries			CEE countries
HDI ranking	Country	HDI value	HDI ranking	Country	HDI value
1	Norway	0.955	21	Slovenia	0.892
2	Australia	0.938	28	Czech Republic	0.873
3	United States	0.937	–	Czechoslovakia	0.862a
4	Netherlands	0.921	33	Estonia	0.846
5	Germany	0.920	35	Slovakia	0.840
6	New Zealand	0.919	37	Hungary	0.831
7	Ireland	0.916	39	Poland	0.821
8	Sweden	0.916	41	Lithuania	0.818
9	Switzerland	0.913	44	Latvia	0.814
10	Japan	0.912	47	Croatia	0.805
11	Canada	0.911	50	Belarus	0.793
13	Iceland	0.906	55	Russia	0.788
15	Denmark	0.901	56	Romania	0.786
17	Belgium	0.897	57	Bulgaria	0.782
18	Austria	0.895	–	Yugoslavia	0.779a
20	France	0.893	–	Serbia with Montenegro	0.770a
21	Finland	0.892	–	USSR	0.753a
23	Spain	0.885	70	Albania	0.749
25	Italy	0.881	78	Ukraine	0.740
26	Luxembourg	0.875	78	Macedonia	0.740
26	United Kingdom	0.875	81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.735
29	Greece	0.860	90	Turkey	0.722
43	Portugal	0.816	113	Moldova	0.660

^aAggregate calculated from population-weighted successor states’ HDI