Comparative Study on Human Development Index (HDI): Indonesia and Bangladesh Context

Abstrak

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a development indicator since 1990, operated by the
United Nations Development Programme. Our entitled “Comparative Study on Human
Development Index (HDI): Indonesia and Bangladesh Context” paper will focus on
comparison of both countries situation. In common scenes Indonesia is in advance than
Bangladesh but what is the real situation are exist in both countries will be explained by our
study. Here we will compare series data (1980-2011) & its trends, value comparison (2011-
2012), of two countries. In this paper we have analysis following segments of two countries
named Inequality-adjusted HDI(IHDI), Gender Inequality Index (GII), Multidimensional Poverty
Index (MPI) and Cross-Analysis of Indonesia & Bangladesh related to others relevant data like:
Demographic Situation, Education Condition, Health Situation, Gender Observation etc. In our
paper we have used New method for 2011 data onwards that Published on 4 November 2010
(and updated on 10 June 2011), starting with the 2011 Human Development Report the HDI
combines three dimensions: A long and healthy life: Life expectancy at birth, Education index:
Mean years of schooling and Expected years of schooling, A decent standard of living: GNI per
capita (PPP US$). Hopefully this paper will give us a clear idea about two countries current
socio-economic condition as well.