Question

UNDP publishes the Human Development Index (HDI) every year. Which of the following is not a criterion used to measure the HDI?

• A. Health
• B. Education
• C. Living standards
• D. Human rights

Hint:

HDI has exactly three pillars: health, education, and living standards; human rights is not one of them.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The HDI is deliberately built from just three dimensions, so recalling that fixed list settles this question.

1. Health: Captured through life expectancy at birth, one of the three HDI components.
2. Education: Captured through expected and mean years of schooling, the second component.
3. Living standards: Captured through gross national income (GNI) per capita, the third component.
4. Human rights: Not part of the HDI formula at all; it is a separate area tracked by other UN reports and indices, not this one.

So the correct answer is option D, human rights.