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814486 Augmented Human Development Index (AHDI)     2023-09-28 15:28:41 2024-07-08 17:29:59     1870-2020 6247     
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 0     ahdi grapher/ahdi/2023-09-08/augmented_hdi/augmented_hdi#ahdi   2 minor           The AHDI seeks to give a historical perspective on human development, in four dimensions: healthy life, knowledge, a decent standard of living, and civil and political freedom. Human wellbeing is widely viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, in which income is only one facet. Human development, originally defined as a process of enlarging people’s choices, namely, enjoying a healthy life, acquiring knowledge and achieving a decent standard of living, provides a multidimensional measure of wellbeing. These achievements provide individuals with freedom to choose and the opportunity to lead their own lives. Thus, human development can be depicted as positive freedom by which individuals are granted access to resources, including property, that allow them to develop their personal potential. In order to provide a synthetic measure of augmented human development, its different dimensions are expressed in index form, - life expectancy at birth as a proxy for a healthy life, - years of schooling as a proxy for access to knowledge, - liberal democracy as a proxy for freedom, - and discounted GDP per head as a surrogate for wellbeing dimensions other than education and health. The indices for each dimension are, then, combined using equal weights into an index of human development. In an attempt to reduce the substitutability between its different dimensions –namely, to avoid that a high achievement in one dimension linearly compensates for a low achievement in another–, the indices for each dimension are combined into a historical index of human development using a geometric average. If we denote the non-linearly transformed values of life expectancy and education as LEB and EDU, LD to represent those of liberal democracy, and the adjusted per capita income as UNY, the historical index of human development can be expressed as, _AHDI = (LEB * EDU * LD * UNY)^(1/4)_ 
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    "Each of the dimensions of the AHDI is measured with four indicators: a long and healthy life is measured by _life expectancy at birth_, knowledge is measured by _mean_ _years of schooling_; a decent standard of living is measured by _GDP per capita_, logarithmized to reflect that incomes become less important as they increase; and civil and political freedom is measured by [_Varieties of Democracy's Liberal democracy index_](https://ourworldindata.org/vdem-electoral-democracy-data).",
    "The index is then calculated by normalizing the indicators. First, the indicators are brought onto the same scale, ranging from 0 to 1. This is done by setting minimum and maximum values for each indicator, and a country at or below the minimum value receiving a score of 0, and a country at or above the maximum value receiving a score of 1.",
    "The minimum and maximum values for each indicator are defined as follows: _Life expectancy at birth_ ranges between 20 and 85 years; _mean years of schooling_, between 0 and 15 years; _GDP per capita_ between 100 and 47,000 international-$ at 1990 prices; and V-Dem's Liberal democracy index is already standardized between 0 and 1 (most democratic).",
    "The AHDI is then estimated as the geometric mean of these indices, or _AHDI = (Health index * Education index * Income index * Freedom index)^(1/4)_."
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