Iceland vs Japan: Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric

Iceland

0.845

in 2020

Japan

0.8567

in 2020

Iceland rank

4th

Japan rank

2nd

Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric over time

Iceland
Japan

How they compare

Japan currently reports 0.8567 against 0.845 in Iceland, a difference of 0.0118.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 15 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 4th and Japan ranks 2nd of 162 countries.

Individual pages

Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Iceland
Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Japan
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric
Source: Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2021) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 163 places, 3,421 data points, 1870–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.