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Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
34 years, 1990–2023 · 156 countries
The Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI is UNDP’s answer to “development at whose expense”: the Human Development Index discounted for a country’s carbon emissions and material footprint. It is the one measure here that systematically pushes wealthy, high-emitting countries down.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2023, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI · the file
0134 years
Every year comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2023Newest | 156 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2022 | 155 | +1 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2021 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2020 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2019 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2018 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2017 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2016 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2015 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2014 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2013 | 155 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 2012 | 155 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: planetary-pressures-hdi-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 156 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 156 | 0 | |
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI (0–1)phdi_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: PHDI (0–1). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.276 | 131 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03156 countries across every year
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 46 |
| Americas | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Europe | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 155 | 156 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNDP Human Development Report Office
2 · Their file
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the 2025 Human Development Report, which recalculates every year at once on one current method.
05Reuse
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked August 29, 2026
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UNDP Human Development Report Office, Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, 1990–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/planetary-pressures-hdi
The publisher’s own citation: UNDP. Human Development Report. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
07Questions
The Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI is UNDP’s answer to “development at whose expense”: the Human Development Index discounted for a country’s carbon emissions and material footprint. It is the one measure here that systematically pushes wealthy, high-emitting countries down.
All 34, from 1990 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
No. UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNDP Human Development Report Office. The licence text is linked on this page.