The Human Development Index (HDI) is a measure that looks at income, health, and education to assess how well economies are doing. The HDI was developed by the United Nations in the 1990s as a way to overcome the limitations of using income as the only way of measuring how good an economy really is. Each year, the Human Development Index (HDI), the signature index of the Human Development Reports (HDR), captures headlines across the globe, as countries track their progress in education, health and income.Although the HDI is not a comprehensive measure of human development, it is a broader assessment of human well-being and it shows how, human development measures have become a touchstone