Table 3.
Cluster | Temporal evolution | Countries |
---|---|---|
(a) | (a1) steady - declining | Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, Malawi, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Swaziland, Guatemala, Togo, Vietnam, Benin, Yemen, Djibouti, Niger, Ghana, Somalia, Tajikistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador |
(a2) steady - constant | Indonesia, Nigeria, Congo Democratic Republic, Zambia, Kenya, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Chad, Honduras, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia | |
(b) | (b1) alternating | Liberia, Central African Republic CAR, Cameroon, Senegal, Namibia, Gambia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Mauritania |
(c) | (c1) stepped - multiple | Nepal, Haiti, Rwanda, Angola, Bolivia, Syria, Timor Leste, Congo Brazzaville, Bhutan, Egypt |
(c2) stepped - single | Laos, Cambodia, Palestine, Vanuatu, Comoros, Guyana |
The groups are defined by a hierarchical clustering approach based on a distance matrix derived from dynamic time warping time series similarity analysis. This table lists all countries with medium and low human development index (SHDI<0.7).